midnight
So all Heer Roosten had to do was to write to Trenchard at Moonfleet , and in due course the letter was returned to him , with the information that Trenchard had fled that place to escape the law , and was then nowhere to be found . After that Heer Roosten was advised to write to the minister of the parish , and so addressed these lines to Mr. Glennie . This was the gist of the letter which Mr. Glennie read , and you may easily guess how such news moved me , and how we sat far into the night talking and considering what steps it was best to take , for we feared lest so long an interval as eight years having elapsed , the lawyers might have made some other disposition of the money . It was midnight when Mr. Glennie left . The candle had long burnt out , but the fire was bright , and he knelt a moment by the trestle-table before he went out . ` He made a good end , John , ' he said , rising from his knees , ` and I pray that our end may be in as good cause when it comes . For with the best of us the hour of death is an awful hour , and we may well pray , as every Sunday , to be delivered in it .