midnight
That would want a crowbar ! but having got so far , he would not rest till he knew more ! It must be very late and the domestics all in bed ; but what hour it was he could not tell , for he had left his watch in his room . It might be midnight and he burrowing like a mole about the roots of the old house , or like an evil thing in the heart of a man ! No matter ! he would follow up his search -- after what , he did not know . He crept up , and out of the castle by his own stair , so to the tool-house .