About midnight
Do you remember that time , when the great Dutch ship was cruizing off the coast , and the landing of the crew was nightly expected ? '' `` I remember it well ; for at that time I had beset the coast with faithful followers : political disturbances at Chester and Shrewsbury concurred at that time to make such a descent on the coast a subject of much alarm ; and once or twice I watched myself all night through . '' `` True : and on the 29th of September you were lying upon your arms behind Arthur 's pillar . About midnight a man in the uniform of a sea-fencible joined you : and you may remember some conversation you had with him ? '' Had Sir M. Walladmor been addicted to trembling , he would now have trembled : with earnest gaze , and outstretched arms , he listened without speaking to the stranger , who continued : `` You talked together , until the moon was setting ; and then , when the work was done -- Sir Morgan -- when the work was done , a shot was fired : and in the twinkling of an eye up sprang the sea-fencible ; and he cried aloud , as I do now , Farewell ! Sir Morgan Walladmor ! '' And so saying the stranger threw open his cloak , discovering underneath a dirk and a brace of pistols ; and at the same time , with an impressive gesture , he raised his cap from his head .