midnight
`` We will do just the opposite . If we give the alarm , they too will learn it and be on their guard . Instead of that , let everybody drink until he can not waken himself , and we will drug the bears . There is some secret connection with the church -- those bells at midnight , and the ghost in the lighted church that your lordship himself has seen and heard , -- all that does not happen without the help of man . There is something underneath it all . Just leave the whole matter to me , my Lord ; by evening , I will map out such a campaign as to catch Beelzebub himself if he is in the business . '' Until evening there were whispered consultations throughout Mitosin Castle , but the women were kept out of the secret .