midnight
I may have more than Blake , if I keep on , '' and then , with more pleasurable thoughts than worrying about an indefinable something , the lad finally lost himself in slumber . The camp was still . Even Hank had crawled into his little tent , after a final pipe . He did not get to sleep soon , and had either of the boys been awake they would have seen him come out several times before midnight , and stalk about , peering off into the darkness . Then , after looking to the tether ropes of the animals , he would go back to the small shelters , throw some embers on the fire , and drop off into a doze . For the cowboy was a light sleeper , and the least sound awakened him . `` I guess there 'll be nothing doing , '' he whispered to himself after one of these little observations .