midnight
Come back to-morrow morning ? No , not a bit of it . I 'll hang about here , and wait the captain 's return . That will I , if it be till midnight . '' So resolving , he looks around for a place where he may rest himself . After his thirty miles ' trudge along the king 's highway , with quite ten more back and forth on the wharves , to say nought of the many ships boarded , he needs rest badly . A pile of timber here , with some loose planks alongside it , offers the thing he is in search of ; and on the latter he seats himself , leaning his back against the boards in such a position as to be screened from the sight of those on the barque , while he himself commands a view of the approaches to her gangway-plank .