midnight
Not one word about Larsen , not one spoken word . Cheating , yes . Lying , and treacherous disloyalty , and viciousness , and spite . Fights around the campfires at midnight , battered faces and broken wrists and a cursing that never ceased . All that we could blame on Larsen . But a harmless little guy lying dead by a well in a spreading pool of blood -- that was an outrage that stopped us dead in our legend-making tracks . There is something in the human mind which recoils from too outrageous a deception .