midnight
So , at dusk , when Jason , on the circuit rider 's old nag , rode through camp with Mavis on a pillion behind in laughing acceptance of the old pioneer custom , women and children waved at them from doorways and the miners swung their hats and cheered them as they passed . There was an old-fashioned gathering at the old Hawn home that night . Old Aaron and young Aaron and many Honeycutts were there ; the house was thronged , fiddles played old tunes for nimble feet , and Hawns and Honeycutts ate and drank and made merry until the morning sun fanned its flames above the sombre hills . But before midnight Jason and Mavis fared forth pillion-fashion again . Only , Jason too rode sidewise every now and then that he might clasp her with one arm and kiss her again and again under the smiling old moon . Through the lights and noise of the mighty industry that he would direct , they passed and climbed on . Soon only lights showed that their grimy little working world was below .