midnight
So they 've settled it , and so ` twill be -- onless , Wullie , onless -- but curse it ! I 've no the proof ! '' -- and he hammered the table before him and stamped on the floor . At midnight he arose , a mad , desperate plan looming through his fuddled brain . `` I swore I 'd pay him , Wullie , and I will . If I hang for it I 'll be even wi ' him . I haena the proof , but I _ know _ -- I _ know _ ! ''