midnight
He is a mysterious individual , this Greek ! So I was taken somewhere else in the bottom of a boat , after dark . I do not know where it was , but I think it must have been the garret of some tavern where they play dice . After midnight I heard a great commotion below me , and presently Aristarchi appeared at the window with a rope . He always seems to have a coil of rope within reach ! He tied me to him -- it was like being tied to a wild horse -- and he got us safely down from the window to the boat again , and the mate was in it , and they took me to the ship faster than I was ever rowed in my life . You know the rest . ''