midnight
Huck was silent while he framed a duly cautious reply . Then he said : `` Well , you see , I 'm a kind of a hard lot , -- least everybody says so , and I do n't see nothing agin it -- and sometimes I ca n't sleep much , on account of thinking about it and sort of trying to strike out a new way of doing . That was the way of it last night . I could n't sleep , and so I come along up-street ` bout midnight , a-turning it all over , and when I got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern , I backed up agin the wall to have another think . Well , just then along comes these two chaps slipping along close by me , with something under their arm , and I reckoned they 'd stole it . One was a-smoking , and t ` other one wanted a light ; so they stopped right before me and the cigars lit up their faces and I see that the big one was the deaf and dumb Spaniard , by his white whiskers and the patch on his eye , and t ` other one was a rusty , ragged-looking devil . '' `` Could you see the rags by the light of the cigars ? ''