midnight
`` I order you to close in and take these two at once . '' The imperious command rang out , and the rocks across the valley must have echoed its haughty tone . `` And I order you to halt . '' The voice of Father Josef , clear and rich and powerful , burst upon the silence like cathedral music on the still midnight air . The priest 's tall form rose up on a great mass of rock across the cleft before us -- Father Josef with bared head and flashing eyes and a physique of power . Ferdinand Ramero turned like a lion at bay . `` You are one man .