midnight
`` Heavens , man ! How did you get here ? '' `` Crawled , walked and ran , and the last few miles in a side car , '' Siddons replied . `` Last night , at midnight , I was being held at Montfaucon under the trumped up pretext that a staff officer was on his way down to see me and that I was to take off with von Herzmann later in the night . But I knew that von Herzmann had taken off with another pilot , and I knew that the jig was up . They were n't accusing me of anything -- as yet -- but they were very quiet and their manner told me all I needed to know . Then , bing !