midnight
`` I have failed in this matter , and it seems that ill shall come of it . '' `` So I foretold , master , but we may still remedy the ill if we catch O'Donnell . I think that by now his horsemen are scattered , and this burning hut will draw our own men thither . Before midnight they will be here , and we can ride forth . I think that the Dark Master will gather what men are left him and strike down for Galway . '' `` Two men may ride the same road , '' quoth Brian grimly , and set his naked blade in his belt . He saw that before him lay some fighting and much hard riding , so inside the next hour he had his men full-fed .