midnight
This account may be accepted as quite trustworthy , its writer having been known to me these many years , in the which neither I nor any of my friends have had occasion to doubt her veracity . The writer gave more details than are desirable , but the document is nothing more than a letter to an intimate friend . I remember well she had an eye for color and a taste for description not easy to repress . When I decided to go it was near midnight , The mission was not all to my taste , but the reward was handsome and the letter of Lord Ronley reassuring . I knew I could do it , and dressed as soon as possible and walked to the Lone Oak , a sergeant escorting . There , as I expected , the big soldier known as D'ri was waiting , his canoe in a wagon that stood near . We all mounted the seat , driving pell-mell on a rough road to Tibbals Point , on the southwest corner of Wolf Island .