midnight
`` If it 's only the Bodagh got it , '' replied his comrade , who was no other than Micky Malvathra , `` blaizes to the hair I care . When my brother Barney , that suffered for _ Caam Beal _ -LRB- crooked mouth -RRB- Grime 's business , was before his thrial , hell resave the taisther the same Bodagh would give to defind him . '' `` Damn it , '' rejoined the other , `` but to murdher a man in his bed ! Why , now , if it was only comin ' home from a fair or market , but at midnight , an ' in his bed , begorra it is not the thing , Mickey . '' There was now a pause in the conversation for some minutes ; at length , screams were heard , and the noise of men 's feet , as if engaged in a scuffle upon the stairs , for the hall-door lay open . A light , too , was seen , but it appeared to have been blown out ; the same noise of feet tramping , as if still in a tumult , approached the door , and almost immediately afterwards Flanagan 's party approached , bearing in their arms a female , who panted and struggled as if she had been too weak to shriek or call for assistance . The hall-door was then pulled to and locked by those who were outside .