midnight
Long before that hour the lights in Cranston 's quarters were out and all was silence and peace . Langston , strolling by after making his evening calls , looked long , as lovers will , at the window of the room he knew to be hers , then went resignedly over to the store and took a hand with the officers at a game for which at other times he had no use whatever , -- pool . He had to do something to while away the time until the sleigh-bells came tinkling back , and that seemed to be the only thing going . But midnight came before the foremost sleigh . Pollock safely tooled his party into the post as the twelve o'clock call was going the rounds . Oh , they had had a blissful time ! a glorious time !