about midnight
` All right , Tom , ' was all he said , and he went back to his newspaper and lit another cigar . `` It was the night before court met when I found out what he meant . I went to bed that night with that same old , light-headed , nervous feeling come back upon me . I dropped off to sleep about midnight . When I awoke I was standing half dressed in one of the court-house corridors . Bob was holding one of my arms , our family doctor the other , and Alice was shaking me and half crying . She had sent for the doctor without my knowing it , and when he came they had found me out of bed and missing , and had begun a search . ''