midnight
A soldier 's single duty is blind obedience . ' Rallywood bowed and continued to await his orders in silence . ` That is well . I am about to send you to Kofn Ford , where you will meet the midnight mail from the Frontier . At the foot of the mountain incline , about half-way between the stations , the train will be stopped and a person placed in your custody . You will take this person back with you to the Ford block-house and keep him there until you receive orders to bring him into Révonde . I especially charge you that no violence is to be used , but he is not to be permitted to escape .