the midnight of the twenty-third
of August
Much better die than suffer like that . And Don Rafael and Don Carmelo ? Oh , they marrying other girls , course . '' NATALIE IVANHOFF : A MEMORY OF FORT ROSS At Fort Ross , on the northern coast of California , it is told that an astonishing sight may be witnessed in the midnight of the twenty-third of August . The present settlement vanishes . In its place the Fort appears as it was when the Russians abandoned it in 1841 . The quadrilateral stockade of redwood beams , pierced with embrasures for carronades , is compact and formidable once more .