midnight
Bowling this way and that , the nut at last rolled to my feet . -- ` It is he ! ' cried all . -- Then they bound me with osiers ; and at midnight , unseen and irresistible hands placed me in a shallop ; which sped far out into the lagoon , where they tossed me to the waves ; but so violent the shock , the osiers burst ; and as the shallop fled one way , swimming another , ere long I gained land . '' ` Thus in Flozella , I found but the phantom of Ady , and slew the last hope of Ady the true . ' '' This recital sank deep into my soul . In some wild way , Hautia had made a captive of Yillah ; in some one of her black-eyed maids , the blue - eyed One was transformed .