about twelve o'clock at night
After that the _ Femböring _ glided quite smoothly into the water . Then the man with second sight looked at the boy , and said that he should not have done so . But the lad went on laughing as before , and said he did n't believe in such stuff . When they had come home in the evening , and the folks lay sleeping in the fishing-station , they heard , about twelve o'clock at night , the lad yelling for help ; it even seemed to one of them , by the light of the train-oil lamp , as if a heavy hand were stretching forward from the door right up to the bench on which the lad lay . The lad , yelling and struggling , had already been dragged as far as the door before the others had so far come to their senses as to think of grasping him round the body to prevent him from being dragged right out . And now , in mid doorway , a hard fight began , the Draug dragging him by the legs , while the whole crew tugged against him with the boy 's arms and upper limbs . Thus , amidst yelling and groaning , they swayed to and fro all through the midnight hour , backwards and forwards , in the half-open door ; and now the Draug , and now the men , had the most of the boy on their side of the doorway .