midnight
`` How long ago did you meet him ? '' Crowley inquired , excitedly . `` About an hour . I came on the run , because he 'll get into camp by eleven , and midnight will see five hundred men on the trail . Look at this -- he gave me a map . '' The speaker gloatingly produced a scrap of writing-paper and continued , `` Boys , you 've got five hours ' start of them . '' `` We ca n't go ; we have n't got any dogs , '' said Buck .