midnight
`` Yes . '' She bit her lip . `` I 'll explain everything , but -- you must help me send him back , right away . '' Glancing at the clock , Alaire saw that it was drawing on toward midnight ; with quick decision she seized her husband by the arm , explaining feverishly : `` There is something big going on to-night , Ed ! Longorio brought a guard of soldiers with him and left them at our pump-house . Well , it so happens that Blaze Jones and Mr. Law have gone to the Romero cemetery to get Ricardo Guzman 's body . '' `` WHAT ? ''