midnight
That day he traveled nearly thirty miles , over a country broken by timbered ridges , and toward evening came to the beginning of the open country that lay between him and the forests about Lac Bain . It had been a hard day 's travel , but he did not feel exhausted . The full moon was rising at nine o'clock , and Philip rested for two hours , cooking and eating his supper , and then resumed his journey , determined to make sufficient progress before camping to enable him to reach the post by the following noon . It was midnight when he put up his light tent , built a fire , and went to sleep . He was up again at dawn . At two o'clock he came into the clearing about Lac Bain . As he hurried to Breed 's quarters he wondered if Colonel Becker or Isobel had seen him from their window .