midnight
I expected to see a crowd around the house by that time , but Jerusalem works otherwise than some cities . The sound of a pistol-shot sends everybody hurrying for cover , lest some enemy accuse them afterwards of having had a hand in the disturbance . And the nearest police post was a mile away . So we had our little outrage all to ourselves , although strange tales went the rounds of the Holy City that night , and two weeks later several European newspapers printed a beautiful account of a midnight massacre of Jews . We dragged our prisoners into the sitting-room , and stood them up in front of Grim after the doctor and Mabel had attended to their hurts , which were n't especially serious ; although nobody need expect to get in the way of Jeremy 's fist and feel comfortable for several hours afterwards . The cut made in the second man 's neck by broken glass needed several stitches , but the third man was only winded from having been sat on , and of course he was much more sorry for himself than either of the other two -- a fact that Grim noted . There was another noticeable circumstance that shed light on human nature and Grim 's knowledge of it .