nearly midnight
They hunted an hour . They hunted two hours , and there was not a sign of their two comrades . They asked many about them and nobody could tell a word . It was nearly midnight when they stopped and looked at one another in dismay . `` They are not in the camp -- that is sure , '' said Henry . `` And they 've got too much sense to go out in the woods , '' said Sol . `` Which means that they 've been took , '' said Tom Ross .