midnight
It seemed indeed natural enough that if Blackbeard was to hide the diamond in a well , it would be in the well of that very castle where he had earned it so evilly . ` When he says the `` well north '' , ' continued Elzevir , `` tis clear he means to take a compass and mark north by needle , and at eighty feet in the well-side below that point will lie the treasure . I fixed yesterday with the _ Bonaventure 's _ men that they should lie underneath this ledge tomorrow sennight , if the sea be smooth , and take us off on the spring-tide . At midnight is their hour , and I said eight days on , to give thy leg a week wherewith to strengthen . I thought to make for St. Malo , and leave thee at the _ Éperon d'Or _ with old Chauvelais , where thou couldst learn to patter French until these evil times have blown by . But now , if thou art set to hunt this treasure up , and hast a mind to run thy head into a noose ; why , I am not so old but that I too can play the fool , and we will let St. Malo be , and make for Carisbrooke . I know the castle ; it is not two miles distant from Newport , and at Newport we can lie at the Bugle , which is an inn addicted to the contraband .