midnight
`` Faith , you may if you have aught to tell me , '' and he signed to Beddoes and his companion to withdraw . `` Now , Master Hogan , '' Kenneth began resolutely as soon as they were alone , `` I ask you to let me go my way unmolested . Too long already has the stupidity of your followers detained me here unjustly . That I reach London by midnight is to me a matter of the gravest moment , and you shall let me . '' `` Soul of my body , Mr. Stewart , what a spirit you have acquired since last we met . '' `` In your place I should leave our last meeting unmentioned , master turncoat . '' The Irishman 's eyebrows shot up .