midnight
admonished the Professor . `` Stop this nonsense . I want to go to sleep . I do n't mind you young gentlemen enjoying yourselves , but midnight is rather late for such pranks , it strikes me . Into your blankets , every one of you . '' It was doubtful that the boys even heard his voice . If they did , they failed entirely to catch the meaning of his words , so absorbed were they in the mad scramble of Ned Rector and Stacy Brown .