midnight
Tolleston argued one way , and we all pulled the other , so they drove away , looking as if they hoped it was n't true . But it was the sight of your life to see that fat fellow fan himself as he kept repeating , ` I thought you boys hurried too much in buying these cattle . ' '' The guards changed hourly . No fire was allowed , but Parent set out all the cold food available , and supplementing this with canned goods , we had a midnight lunch . Dorg Seay regaled the outfit with his recent experience , concealing nothing , and regretfully admitting that his charge had escaped before the work was finished . A programme was outlined for the morrow , the main feature of which was that , in case of pursuit , we would all tell the same story . Dawn came between three and four on those June mornings , and with the first streak of gray in the east we divided the outfit and mounted our horses , part riding to push the cattle off their beds and the others to round in the remuda .