twelve o'clock
And Michel , knocking the tobacco from his pipe , said : `` You will do well to sleep . We may have a long day before us '' ; and he walked away to the guides ' quarters . But Chayne could not sleep ; hope and doubt fought too strongly within him , wrestling for the life of his friend . At twelve o'clock Michel knocked upon his door . Chayne got up from his bed at once , drew on his boots , and breakfasted . At half past the rescue party set out , following a rough path through a wilderness of boulders by the light of a lantern . It was still dark when they came to the edge of the glacier , and they sat down and waited .