midnight
`` Depends on how much you help about gettin ' the money , '' said Jack carelessly . Hogan , who was not very courageous , did not dare push the matter though he would have liked a more definite assurance . However , he had another motive besides the love of money , and was glad to have the cooperation of Rafferty , though secretly afraid of his ruffianly accomplice . It was agreed to wait till midnight . Till then both men threw themselves down and slept . As the clock indicated midnight , Rafferty shook Hogan roughly . The latter sat up and gazed , in terrified bewilderment , at Jack , who was leaning over him , forgetting for the moment the compact into which he had entered .