Midnight
`` We could then have floated her across the stream . '' He noted the direction the bandits were pursuing , and sent the Terror running along again . Tim and Fritz maintained an anxious lookout in the meantime for an opportunity of getting over the creek . `` Midnight ! '' `` Dere vos der roat . '' `` Ay , but whar 's the bandits ? '' The Inventor had been obliged to run the Terror to the headwaters of the creek ere they were able to pass the stream .