midnight
He sailed away for Amsterdam , and was permitted by Heaven to arrive safe with his sacrilegious freight . He did not , as before , enter the canal opposite to the house of Vandermaclin , but one that ran behind the habitation of the Jew Isaacs . At night , he went into the house , and reported to the Jew what he had for sale ; and the keen grey eyes of the bent-double little Israelite sparkled with delight , for he knew that his profit would be great . At midnight the bell was made fast to the crane , and safely deposited in the warehouse of the Jew , who counted out the ten thousand guilders to the enraptured M'Clise , whose thoughts were wholly upon the possession of his Katerina , and not upon the crime he had committed . But , alas ! to conceal one crime , we are too often obliged to be guilty of even deeper ; and thus it was with Andrew M'Clise . The people who had assisted , upon the promise of a thousand guilders being divided among them now murmured at their share , and insisted upon an equal division of the spoils , or threatened with an immediate confession of the black deed .