midnight
Leave Jas 's gun thar , 'n' send that boy back home . '' That day the troops came -- young Blue Grass Kentuckians . That night , within the circle of their camp-fires , a last defiance was cast in the teeth of law and order . Flames rose within the old court-house , and before midnight the moonlight fell on four black walls . That night , too , the news of young Jasper 's fate was carried to the death-bed of Rome 's mother , and before day the old woman passed in peace . That day Stetsons and Lewallens disbanded . The Lewallens had no leader ; the Stetsons , no enemies to fight .