midnight
`` Yes , it was Jubiter Dunlap . Not dead , you see . Then they pulled off the dead man 's boots and put Jubiter Dunlap 's old ragged shoes on the corpse and put the corpse 's boots on Jubiter Dunlap . Then Jubiter Dunlap stayed where he was , and the other man lugged the dead body off in the twilight ; and after midnight he went to Uncle Silas 's house , and took his old green work-robe off of the peg where it always hangs in the passage betwixt the house and the kitchen and put it on , and stole the long-handled shovel and went off down into the tobacker field and buried the murdered man . '' He stopped , and stood half a minute . Then -- `` And who do you reckon the murdered man WAS ? It was -- JAKE Dunlap , the long-lost burglar ! ''