midnight
The king had given Count Saxe permission to increase his body-guard of Uhlans , in view of the war known to be coming , and all these men and horses had to be assigned to their proper quarters , and provided for otherwise . The hunting establishment alone required the services of more than a hundred men ; for there were wolves and wild boars to be hunted besides smaller game , in the forests of Chambord , and the plains of Salon . It is in this region that Thibaut of Champagne , so the peasants believe , follows his ghostly hunt . Often , at midnight , the winding of his horn echoes through the darkness of the forest , and the cry of his dogs from the nether world rings to the night sky -- so say the peasants . I never saw or heard this supernatural hunt . With the internal management of the castle I had nothing to do . Beauvais was promoted to be _ maître d'hôtel _ , and a hard enough time he had , losing , in one year , a very good head of hair over it .