midnight
There was one among them had heard Lampugnani 's words touching the messenger 's hat -- words that had cost the fellow his life . But my concern was little with the effect my words might produce upon his followers . `` By to-morrow you will know whether I have lied or not . Nay , before then shall you know it , for by midnight Cesare Borgia should be at Cesena . Vitellozzo Vitelli 's letter is in his hands by now . '' At that Ramiro burst into a laugh . So convinced was he of the impossibility of my having got the letter to the Duke , even if what I had said of its abstraction were true , that he gathered assurance from what seemed to him so monstrous an exaggeration .