Midnight
An embrace , long , tender , and mournful , accompanied their words , after which they separated in sorrow and in tears , and with but little hope of happiness on the path of life that lay before them . CHAPTER XIX . -- Hanlon Secures the Tobacco-box . -- Strange Scene at Midnight . The hour so mysteriously appointed by Red Rody for the delivery of the Tobacco-box to Hanlon , was fast approaching , and the night though by no means so stormy as that which we have described on the occasion of that person 's first visit to the Grey Stone , was nevertheless dark and rainy , with an occasional slight gust of wind , that uttered a dreary and melancholy moan , as it swept over the hedges . Hanlon , whose fear of supernatural appearances had not been diminished by what he had heard there before as well as on his way home , now felt alarmed at every gust of wind that went past him . He hurried on , however , and kept his nerves as firmly set as his terrors would allow him , until he got upon the plain old road which led directly to the appointed place .