About midnight
`` It may be that 's the Arickaree Valley for me , '' I said to myself . `` If it is , I will fear no evil . '' And I stretched out on the brown grasses and fell asleep . About midnight I wakened suddenly . A light was gleaming near . Some one stood beside me , and presently I saw Colonel Forsyth looking down into my face with kindly eyes . I raised myself on my elbow and watched him passing among the slumbering soldiers .