midnight
Next morning a lad with a big head and a hare lip came from Klyauzovka . He gave his name as the shepherd Danilko , and furnished a very interesting piece of information . `` I had had a drop , '' said he . `` I stayed on till midnight at my crony 's . As I was going home , being drunk , I got into the river for a bathe . I was bathing and what do I see ! Two men coming along the dam carrying something black .