midnight
Do you want to think ? '' `` No , of course I do n't . I only want to keep on in this half-asleep way ; it makes it a little better then . '' Another halt at sundown , a fairly good meal , and a refreshing sleep , before the doctor roused all once more towards midnight for the tramp that was to last till about ten o'clock the next day . All was done this time in silence , save that Bourne tried to say hopefully -- `` I should think we shall see the mountains quite clearly when day dawns . '' But no one answered , for nobody believed they would . A feeling of despondency was making itself too plainly felt , and when broad daylight did at last come all that could be seen was sand and soda everywhere , not so much as a shrub or scrap of grass , only scattered stones here and there , and the party shrank from looking in each other 's wild and bloodshot eyes .