midnight
An unusual stillness was over the village . It seemed that everybody slept . Dick and Albert waited through long , long hours . Dick had nothing by which to reckon time , but he believed that he could calculate fairly well by guess , and once , when he thought it was fully midnight , he peeped out at the door of the lodge . Pine Tree was there , leasing against a sapling , but his attitude showed laziness and a lack of vigilance . It might be that , feeling little need of watching , he slept on his feet . Dick devoutly hoped so .