midnight
Hers is a pitiful story , and I betray no confidences in telling you of it , for it is common property . `` Fourteen years ago a launch put into the Bay and anchored at the entrance to Jake 's cove . There were several ladies and gentlemen in her , and one little girl . They picnicked on the beach and , in the evening , they dined aboard , singing and laughing until after midnight . Jake was the only one who saw or heard them , and he swears they were not English-spoken . Though they were gay and pleasure-loving , yet they seemed to be of a superior class of people . `` He awoke before daylight , fancying he heard screams in the location of The Ghoul Rock .