midnight
`` Well then , we 'll meet at Aquanus 's tavern at four o'clock . '' `` But the young lady -- '' `` It will be time enough , if she learns at the gate who is to accompany her . '' When Georg came to the tavern at the appointed hour , he learned that Henrica had received another letter from Nicolas . It had been given to the outposts by the Junker himself , and contained only the words `` Until midnight , the Spanish watch-word is ` Lepanto . ' Your father shall know to - day , that Anna is here . '' After the departure from the Hohenort Gate had been fixed for nine o'clock in the evening , Georg went to Captain Van der Laen and the commandant Van der Does , received from the former the discharge he requested , and from Janus a letter to his friend , Admiral Boisot . When he informed his men , that he intended to leave the city and make his way to the Beggars , they declared they would follow , and live or die with him .