about midnight
One look was all I wanted to show me that this here mummy of old Pick 's was nothin ' else but the remains of old Ah Yen , the Chink what died in Williams and was stole out of the joss house . Then I remembered the reward offered for it , but old Pick were too square a feller to soak that-a-way . I never said nothin ' to nobody about what I 'd seen , but slipped the lid back on the case and went off to bed in the other tent . `` Long about midnight I was woke up by somebody a hollerin ' fire , and when I busted out of the tent the whole row of shacks was a blazin ' . Our big tent was too far gone to save anything , but we drug out our beds and what little baggage we had in the small tent and did well to git that much out . Inside an hour there was n't nothin ' left but a pile of ashes to show where the whole outfit stood . `` Old man Pick , he took on considerable , but ` twa n't no use cryin ' over spilt milk , an ' so we hit the trail for Arizony an ' a little sunshine . ''