midnight
Light the lamps . '' `` Yes , sir , '' and he at once proceeded to light a chandelier of oil-lamps . The gloom of coming night had weighed upon him , but now that there was light in the room , he felt better , and more composed , but still ill at ease . Finally he fell asleep , but it was long past midnight , and after he had gone through with all sorts of mental misery , and then Barnwell ventured to sleep himself . But it was a wild sleep that came to him , for all that he had passed through during the day had so wrought up his feelings that it was next to impossible for him to sleep . But both of them got gradually quieted down , and slept , one an honest man , and the other a rascal , and for an hour or more they kept it up , until Kanoffskie again fell into a nightmare . Barnwell was awakened .