midnight
There are all kinds of stories afloat concerning the gipsies and free traders who live in those deep coves ; we might fall in with a pirate ship -- '' `` Or find a hidden treasure ! '' he said scoffingly , as he seated himself on the other side of the table and took some coffee , the frown gone , and the Sandy I knew with the bright face and laughing eye back again . `` Aye , '' he went on in his humorous way , `` I am convinced ` twill be hidden treasure we 'll find , Jock . We 'll go ashore at midnight , and under a stunted pine will be a sailor 's chest . Hidden treasures are always found in sailors ' chests , ye know . And taking a three-foot bar of iron , which every gentleman in tales carries concealed upon his person , we , you and I , -- none of the others , of course , -- will pry this chest open -- to find ducats and doubloons , and piastres , and sous-marquees -- and a map of the Spanish Main and the Dry Tortugas -- with crosses in blood . I 'll tell you , ye can have my share of it now , '' he cried , laughing at me .