midnight
Two of them failed . There are two trails into the heart of Cofachique , one from the west from Tuscaloosa , and the other from Cofaque , a very secret trail through swamp and palmetto scrub , full of false clues and blind leads . `` Far-Looking sat in the god-house at Talimeco , and sent her thought along the trail to turn the strangers back ; but what is the thought of one woman against six hundred men ! It reached nobody but the lad Perico , and shook him with a midnight terror , so that he screamed and threw himself about . The Spaniards came running with book and bell , for the priest thought the boy was plagued by a devil . But the soldiers thought it was all a pretense to save himself from being punished for not knowing the trail to Cofachique . `` Nobody really knew it , because the Cofachiquans , who were at war with Cofaque , had hidden it as a fox covers the trail to her lair .