midnight
A ruse so carefully planned could have for its object nothing less than the obliteration of Hugh Renwick , as a prisoner or something worse -- perhaps Death ! She shuddered . She , Marishka , would unwittingly have caused it ! She had asked him to come at midnight and knock upon the door in the court below and she knew enough of Hugh to be sure that if he received the message , no matter how great the danger to himself , he would come . The note ! If she could recall it ! She would suffer whatever Goritz had in store for her , if Hugh could only be spared .