midnight
It may be so . We can not tell . Certainly it seemed as if Jim Frost had received some such intimation that night . `` I ca n't understand it , Evan , '' he said to his mate when the latter came on deck a little after midnight to relieve him . `` A feeling as if something was going to happen has taken possession of me , and I ca n't shake it off . You know I 'm not the man to fancy danger when there 's none . '' Evan -- a youth whom he had been the means of rescuing when about to fall , under great temptation -- replied that perhaps want of sleep was the cause .