midnight
And sometimes awe-stricken little squads of school children lead one another there , hand in hand , to look at the grave where Annie Prince was going to be buried when her beau took her away . They never seem to connect that heart-broken wraith of a lover with the bent farmer who goes to and fro driving the cows . He wears patched overalls , and has sciatica in winter ; but I have seen the gleam of youth awakened , though remotely , in his eyes . I do not believe he ever quite forgets ; there are moments , now and then , at dusk or midnight , all his for poring over those dulled pages of the past . After we had elected to abide by our old home , we voted an enlargement of its bounds ; and thereby hangs a tale of outlawed revenge . Long years ago `` old Abe Eaton '' quarreled with his twin brother , and vowed , as the last fiat of an eternal divorce , `` I wo n't be buried in the same yard with ye ! '' The brother died first ; and because he lay within a little knoll beside the fence , Abe willfully set a public seal on that iron oath by purchasing a strip of land outside , wherein he should himself be buried .