midnight
`` Let the gods deal with me as they will , '' replied the Aztecan . `` A day of happiness with the man I love is worth an age of punishment . '' Kamaiakan made no answer , and the two rode forward in silence . It was midnight , and a bright star , nearly in the zenith , seemed to hang precisely above the summit of the great white pyramid at the mouth of the gorge . `` It was here that we stopped , '' observed Semitzin . `` We tied our horses among the shrubbery round yonder point . Thence we must go on foot .