midnight
It is good ! Almost too good to be true . I wonder what our fine prisoner will say to it when the new prisoner comes to keep him company over the 26th . '' It was far past midnight when King was roused from the doze into which he had fallen , exhausted and disconsolate , an hour earlier . Sounds of unusual commotion reached him from the outer room . Instantly he was wide awake , breathing heavily in the sudden overpowering fear that he had slept for many hours and that the time had come for the conspirators to go forth . Was it the 26th ?