midnight
It so happened that the Gaspé schooner arrived before the southern packet , and lay outside of the ice , waiting until she could make her way through . So welcome was the sight that the islanders gathered upon the shores of the bay just for the pleasure of looking at her as she lay without the harbour . Caius looked at her , too , and with comparative indifference , for he rejoiced that he was still in prison . Upon that day the night fell just as it falls upon all days ; but at midnight Caius had a visitor . O'Shea came to him in the darkness . Caius was awakened from sound sleep by a muffled thumping at his door that was calculated to disturb him without carrying sharp sound into the surrounding air . His first idea was that some drunken fellow had blundered against his wall by mistake .