midnight
It was not in their hands . He had the feeling all at once of having relinquished a great burden . He crawled into bed and was almost instantly asleep . So sometime after midnight found David sleeping , and Lucy on her knees . It found Elizabeth dreamlessly unconscious in her white bed , and Dick Livingstone asleep also , but in his clothing , and in a chair by the window . In the light from a street lamp his face showed lines of fatigue and nervous stress , lines only revealed when during sleep a man casts off the mask with which he protects his soul against even friendly eyes . But midnight found others awake .