midnight
He passed it with an oath . Long before , he had provided for such a contingency . By the same agency which had got him to the border , he could now be sent further on . At something after midnight , clad in old clothes and carrying on his back a rough outfit of a blanket and his remaining wardrobe , he knocked at the door of a small adobe house on the border of the town . An elderly German with a candle admitted him . `` Well , I 'm off , '' Rudolph said roughly . `` And time enough , too , '' said the German , gruffly .