midnight
But after we landed and I started up home , it seemed as if it was just kind of playing , after all , because that 's the way some people think about the scouts , so I hurried as fast as I could so that my mother and father would n't be worrying . I felt awfully funny , kind of , as I went up the lawn because I knew that if no one had come and told them about the signal , they 'd think I was dead . They were sitting on the porch waiting for me and I knew from the way my mother put her arms around me that they had been worrying . She asked we what had kept me so late and my father said that I ought to send them some word when I was going to stay out as late as midnight . I have to admit he was right , too . But anyway , I knew that they had n't received any word about me from anybody , and I was all up in the air about that . I could see that Jake Holden had n't been there at all and that nobody had come and told them about the signal , either .