midnight
Your score would but meet the fate of the old Baron and would not better the case of those within the castle . The Archbishop has not assaulted Bernstein since the Baron 's death , but has drawn a tight line around it and so has cut off all supplies , daily summoning the maiden to surrender . What they now need in Bernstein is not iron , but food . Through long waiting they keep slack watch about the castle , and it is possible that , with care taken at midnight , you might reprovision Bernstein so that she could hold out until her brother comes , whom it is said she has summoned from the Holy Land . '' `` Thou art wise , old Gottlieb , '' said the Count slowly , pausing in his wrath as the difficulties of the situation were thus placed in array before him ; `` wise and cautious , as all men seem to be who now keep ward on the Rhine . What said my father regarding this contest ? '' `` My Lord , your honoured father was in his bed stricken with the long illness that came to be his undoing at the last , and we never let him know that the Baron was dead or the siege in progress . ''