midnight
I do n't , so far as he 's concerned , if I could just get away from this beast of a place myself . '' Abreast of her a logger came to the broken window with a sack to bar out the frosty air . And Stella , realizing suddenly that she was shivering with the cold , ran back to the cabin and got into her bed . But she did not sleep , save in uneasy periods of dozing , until midnight was long past . Then Fyfe and her brother came in , and by the sounds she gathered that Fyfe was putting Charlie to bed . She heard his deep , drawly voice urging the unwisdom of sleeping with calked boots on , and Beaton 's hiccupy response . The rest of the night she slept fitfully , morbidly imagining terrible things .