midnight
`` Jack , do you know we must go there this week and see it again ? I have plans to carry out before making my identity known . '' An hour afterwards the old servants heard Captain Tom step out into the yard . It was then past midnight -- the most memorable night of all their lives . Neither of the old servants could sleep , for hearing Ephraim talk , and that lusty darkey had sadly mixed his imagination and his facts . The old man went out : `` Do n't be uneasy , '' said Captain Tom . `` I am going to saddle John Paul Jones and ride over the scenes of my youth .