midnight
I tried to find them , and I could n't . Please find them for me , Uncle Billy , Please ! Please ! '' * * * * * It was well past midnight . The big full moon , high now in the sky , cast their shadows almost about their feet when , their labour complete , the party took up the homeward trail . But there were twenty no longer . At their head as before rode Landor , in his arms not a rifle but a blanket ; a blanket from which as they journeyed on came now and anon a sound that was alien indeed : the sobs of a baby girl who wept as she slept .