midnight
Now where is that rudderless boat ? Let it be one of our first purposes to discover . With the first glimpse we obtain of it , the dawn of our success shall begin . This boat shall guide us , with a rapidity which will surprise even ourselves , to him who employed it in the midnight of the fatal Sabbath . Corroboration will rise upon corroboration , and the murderer will be traced . '' -LSB- For reasons which we shall not specify , but which to many readers will appear obvious , we have taken the liberty of here omitting , from the MSS . placed in our hands , such portion as details the following up of the apparently slight clew obtained by Dupin .