midnight
The fine cloak I had taken from the man on the rocks was on deck , and till now I had forgotten it ; there was , however , plenty of apparel in the corner to serve as wraps , and having chosen enough to smother me I vaulted into the cot , and so covered myself that the clothes were above the level of the sides of the cot . I left the lanthorn burning whilst I made sure my bed was all right , and lay musing , feeling extremely melancholy ; the hardest part was the thought of those two men watching in the cabin . The most fantastic alarms possessed me . Suppose their ghosts came to the ship at midnight , and , entering their bodies , quickened them into walking ? Suppose they were in the condition of cataleptics , sensible of what passed around them , but paralyzed to the motionlessness and seeming insensibility of death ? Then the very garments under which I lay were of a proper kind to keep a man in my situation quaking . My imagination went to work to tell me to whom they had belonged , the bloody ends their owners had met at the hands of the miscreants who despoiled them .