midnight
Sam , go and see after the Dean . '' Sam went out , and saw Frank across the yard playing with the dogs . He was going towards him , when a man entering the yard suddenly came up and spoke to him . It was William Lee -- grown older , and less wildlooking , since we saw him first at midnight on Dartmoor , but a striking person still . His hair had become grizzled , but that was the only sign of age he showed . There was still the same vigour of motion , the same expression of enormous strength about him as formerly ; the principal change was in his face . Eighteen years of honest work , among people who in time , finding his real value , had got to treat him more as a friend than a servant , had softened the old expression of reckless ferocity into one of good-humoured independence .