midnight
`` Now we 're beginning to get places , '' Allison agreed . For the next hour they planned and talked . Tony explained the route they would have to take to get to the field where O'Malley was to pick them up . No one said anything about O'Malley 's not being there at midnight . Their big worry was to get to the field themselves . It was well after dark , according to their watches , when things began to happen . An officer and a squad of soldiers entered the cellar .