midnight
Now let us return . The sun is down , and the rocks are slippery . '' `` Well , _ caballeros _ , let us have a little social amusement , '' said Captain Brand , as he sat down at the table in the padre 's and doctor 's quarters , and wound up his splendid watch , the present from the Captain General of Cuba . `` But bear in mind that we must break up at midnight , for our _ compadre _ here has a multitude of articles to get on board his felucca to-night , and I must be astir at daylight . '' Did Captain Brand think , while he turned the key of that gold repeater , of the bloodstained wretch he had put to death in the morning , who was lying stark and still in his narrow , damp resting-place , or of the poor little sufferer who had been torn from his heart-broken mother sleeping near him ? Oh no , certainly not . Captain Brand was thinking of a little game of monté .