midnight
Rick resolved to send a cable from Tawi Tawi , if they should stop there . He knew the family would be anxious to know how things were going . The watch ticked away without incident . A few minutes before midnight Rick woke Chahda and joined the Hindu boy in a glass of cold coke . Then he went to bed and drifted off to sleep immediately . Some inner instinct awakened him . For a moment he lay quietly , his heart pounding , eyes blinking in the darkness .