two hours after midnight
All that day I lay in the dungeon cudgelling my brains for the reason of this new and inexplicable punishment . All I could conclude was that some stool had lied an infraction of the rules on me in order to curry favour with the guards . Meanwhile Captain Jamie fretted his head off and prepared for the night , while Winwood passed the word along to the forty lifers to be ready for the break . And two hours after midnight every guard in the prison was under orders . This included the day-shift which should have been asleep . When two o'clock came , they rushed the cells occupied by the forty . The rush was simultaneous .