midnight
Then there was the very practical consideration that he had n't the faintest idea of how to contact the underground even if he wanted to . And he 'd make a hell of a poor conspirator . He was still in an unhappy and undecided whirlpool when the monitors came for him . * * * * * They knocked on the door at midnight , as was their custom , and he felt such an utter panic that he could barely make it across the apartment to let them in . The four burly men wavered before his eyes , and there was a roaring and a darkness in his head . They arrested him without ceremony on suspicion of treason , which meant that habeas corpus and even the right of trial did n't apply . Two of them escorted him to a car , the other two stayed to search his dwelling .