midnight
He means mischief , but I can not stay here now , much less take him with me . He would not go . '' So it happened that Father Le Claire hurried away in the darkness and the driving rain , and at a fearful risk swam his horse across the Neosho , and hastened with all speed to the Mission . When that midnight storm broke over the town , on the night when O'mie followed the strangers and found out their plot , I helped Aunt Candace to fasten the windows and make sure against it until I was too wide awake to go to bed . I sat down by my window , in the lightning flashes watching the rain , wind-driven across the landscape . The night was pitch black . In all the southwest there was only one light , a sullen red bar of flame that came up from Conlow 's forge fire .