midnight
They had comfort in it and in each other . After that day Gabriel Druse always set a light in his window which burned all night , answering to the lantern-light at the door of Tekewani 's home -- the lights of exile and of an alliance which had behind it the secret influences of past ages and vanished peoples . There came a night , however , when the light at the door of Tekewani 's tepee did not burn . At sunset it was lighted , but long before midnight it was extinguished . Looking out from the doorway of his home -LRB- it was the night after the Orange funeral -RRB- , Gabriel Druse , returned from his new duties at Lebanon , saw no light in the Indian reservation . With anxiety , he set forth in the shine of the moon to visit it . Arrived at the chief 's tepee , he saw that the lantern of honour was gone , and waking Tekewani , he brought him out to see .