midnight
`` We must stand together and think together in any emergency . '' Soon after dark the attack began . Flashes of bursting shells and flashes from gun mouths and glowing sheets of flame from rifles made ugly revelry , while the beams of search-lights swept hither and thither . This kept up till shortly after midnight , when it died down and , where hell 's concert had raged , silent darkness shrouded the hills . Marta knew that Bordir was taken without having to ask Lanstron or wait for confirmation from Westerling . She was seated in the recess of the arbor the next morning , when she heard the approach of those regular , powerful steps whose character had become as distinct to her as those of a member of her own family . Five Against three !