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hour after midnight
`` That is all , '' he said ; `` succeed in what I impose , M. de Bazan , and I cry quits , and you shall have fifty crowns for your pains . Fail , and you will but be paying your debt . But you will not fail . Remember , half an hour after midnight . And courage ! '' The young man nodded sullenly , and drawing his cloak about his throat , went through the passage to the street . The night was a little older than when he had entered , otherwise it was unchanged .