midnight
What do you think ? Or am I going off half-cocked ? '' Freddy Farmer did n't reply for a moment . He sat staring out over the Gulf of Paria that was now changing from blood red to midnight blue since the sun had gone down behind the headlands of Venezuela . Finally he reached a hand up inside his tunic and nodded abruptly . `` If you 're going off half-cocked , then we both are , Dave , '' he said quietly . `` I 'm all for getting rid of them .