About midnight
Even if I had known that I was going to be executed at dawn , I think that by comparison I should have been light-hearted . But the worst part of the business was that I knew nothing . I was like a man forced to walk through dense darkness among precipices , quite unable to guess when my journey would end in space , but enduring all the agonies of death at every step . About midnight again we heard that scuffle and stifled cry in the hut behind us . `` He 's gone , '' I whispered to Marût , wiping the cold sweat from my brow . `` Yes , '' answered Marût , `` and very soon we shall follow him , Macumazana . '' I wished that his face were visible so that I could see if he still smiled when he uttered those words .