about midnight
the goblin ! she 's carried away by the goblin ! '' In a few words she related the fearful scene of the garden , and concluded that the spectre must have carried off his bride . Two of the domestics corroborated the opinion , for they had heard the clattering of a horse 's hoofs down the mountain about midnight , and had no doubt that it was the spectre on his black charger bearing her away to the tomb . All present were struck with the direful probability for events of the kind are extremely common in Germany , as many well-authenticated histories bear witness . What a lamentable situation was that of the poor baron ! What a heartrending dilemma for a fond father and a member of the great family of Katzenellenbogen !