midnight
Officially , a Dutchman called Brandt was to be arrested this afternoon and handed over to the German authorities . When Germany begins to trouble about that Dutchman she will find difficulty in getting the body ; but such are the languid ways of an Oriental despotism . Meantime the Dutchman will be no more . He will have ceased upon the midnight without pain , as your poet sings . ' ` But I do n't understand , ' I stammered . ` Who arrested us ? ' ` My men , ' said Sandy .