twelve o'clock
And other ladies hovering about had been sympathetically suggestive , but the Indian girl had turned deaf ear to everything that would even temporarily take her from her self-appointed station . At ten o'clock Mother Shaughnessy , after hanging uneasily about the porch a moment or two , gave muttered voice to a suggestion that other women had shrunk from mentioning : `` Has she been tould Miss Angela and -- him -- is no kin at all , at all ? '' `` I do n't want her told , '' said Mrs. Graham briefly . And so Natzie was still there , sitting sleepless in the soft and radiant moonlight , when toward twelve o'clock Graham came forth from his last visit for the night , and she lifted up her head and looked him dumbly in the face , -- dumbly , yet imploring a word of hope or comfort , -- and it was more than the soft-hearted Scot could bear . `` Major , '' said he , as he gently laid a big hand upon the black and tangled wealth of hair , `` that lad in yonder would have been beyond the ken of civilization days ago if it had n't been for this little savage . I 'm thinking he 'll sleep none the worse for her watching over him . Todd 's there for the night , the same that attended him before , and she wo n't be strange with him -- or I 'm mistaken . ''