midnight
I will not go to the city . Get out all the oars now . At the proper time I will tell you what further I wish . Remember I am to be set ashore at midnight at a place which I will show you . '' The directions though few were clear . Having given them , the passenger signed the negro to fan him , and stretched himself upon the pallet ; and thenceforth there was no longer a question who was in control . It became the more interesting , however , to know the object of the landing at midnight on the shore of a lonesome unnamed bay .