midnight
Bud had spent the hour in regaling Bonner with the story of Rosalie Gray 's abduction and his own heroic conduct in connection with the case . He confessed that he had knocked one of the villains down , but they were too many for him . Bonner listened politely and then -- put the hero to bed . Bonner dozed off at midnight . An hour or so later he suddenly sat bolt upright , wide awake and alert . He had the vague impression that he was deathly cold and that his hair was standing on end . The Men in the Sleigh Let us go back to the night on which Rosalie was seized and carried away from Mrs. Luce 's front gate , despite the valiant resistance of her youthful defenders .