midnight
There was a great council . Ali seemed to think that Patalolo was a prisoner , but he was wrong there . They did the trick very neatly . Before midnight everything was arranged as I can make out . Patalolo went back to his demolished stockade , escorted by a dozen boats with torches . It appears he begged Abdulla to let him have a passage in the Lord of the Isles to Penang . From there he would go to Mecca .