midnight
` Tai n't haunted . '' `` Susie says it is . '' `` And Tabitha has lived alone near it for six or seven years and she has never seen anything stirring there . '' `` But ghosts walk only at midnight . She 's never been there at night . '' `` Aw , you softy -- '' `` Susie says the Gates boy declares he saw a ghost in the graveyard one night . '' `` Well , that 's different .