about midnight
Many of them wondered why a Supreme Being had permitted such things . But they ceased to talk . No sound at all came from the group , and any one fifty yards away , not forewarned , could not have told that they were there . Henry and Paul met again about midnight , and sat a long time on a little hillock . Theirs had been the most dangerous of lives on the most dangerous of frontiers , but they had never been stirred as they were tonight . Even Paul , the mildest of the five , felt something burning within him , a fire that only one thing could quench . `` Henry , '' said he , `` we 're trying to get these people to Fort Penn , and we may get some of them there , but I do n't think our work will be ended them .