midnight
I can not go to rest before it is finished . '' Thereupon the figures vanished . The Jericho rose went out , and the yellow arm-chair stood empty . In the Österhaninge church the dead were celebrating midnight mass . One of them climbed up to the bell-tower and rang in Christmas ; another went about and lighted the Christmas candles , and a third began with bony fingers to play the organ . Through the open doors others came swarming in out of the night and their graves to the bright , glowing House of the Lord . Just as they had been in life they came , only a little paler .