midnight
asked Jess , noting the troubled look that had crept over her chum 's face . `` Oh , nothing at all , '' rejoined Peggy . But she was not speaking the whole truth , for the girl had been thinking what a bulwark of strength Bud and his followers would have been against the vague menace of Red Bill . It was late that night -- after midnight as well as Peggy could judge -- that she was awakened by Jess bending over her cot in the tent that both girls shared . `` O-h-h ! Peggy , Peggy ! I 'm frightened ! ''