midnight
Mistress Boris herself did not understand it . This must be reported to the magistrate . Kólya , accompanied by a large crowd , conducted Marcsa to the magistrate 's house , where the clerks , pending that official 's arrival , took the accused in charge , and shut her up in a dark cell , which had only one narrow window looking out on the henyard . When the magistrate returned towards midnight , only the vacant cell was there without the gypsy woman . She had been able to creep out through the narrow opening , and had gone off . The magistrate , when he saw the '' _ corpus delicti _ , '' was himself of the opinion that the pig was in reality Mistress Boris 's property , while the money that had been hidden in its inside must have come also from Sárvölgyi 's house . There might be some great robbery in progress yonder .