about noon
Daylight will soon be breaking and I must go . Tomorrow night I will return with a rope . I hope today to find some place where you may be concealed . '' Malchus with renewed hope threw himself upon the straw , and lay there until about noon when he was again summoned to the presence of his judges . They were the same whom he had seen previously . `` Malchus , son of Hamilcar , '' Hanno said , `` you are now brought before us to hear the crime with which you are charged . We have here before us the written list of the names of the members of the conspiracy , headed by Giscon , which had for its aim the murder of many of the senate of Carthage and the overthrow of her constitution .