about midnight
-- Pope . Richard did not return from the exercise of his official duties until late in the evening of the following day . It had been one portion of his business to superintend the arrest of part of a gang of counterfeiters , that had , even at that early period , buried themselves in the woods , to manufacture their base coin , which they afterward circulated from one end of the Union to the other . The expedition had been completely successful , and about midnight the sheriff entered the village , at the head of a posse of deputies and constables , in the centre of whom rode , pinioned , four of the malefactors . At the gate of the mansion-house they separated , Mr. Jones directing his assist ants to proceed with their charge to the county jail , while he pursued his own way up the gravel walk , with the kind of self-satisfaction that a man of his organization would feel , who had really for once done a very clever thing . `` Holla ! Aggy ! ''