midnight
`` That wire worried me . I made the best time I could . '' `` He 's dead , '' MacRae answered evenly . `` He died at midnight . '' Inheritance On a morning four days later Jack MacRae sat staring into the coals on the hearth . It was all over and done with , the house empty and still , Dolly Ferrara gone back to her uncle 's home . Even the Cove was bare of fishing craft .