midnight
how could they iver git out agin ? Give the little jokers a fair show , Misther Bilkins ! '' For two weeks Mr. O'Rourke conducted himself with comparative propriety ; that is to say , be rendered himself useless about the place , appeared regularly at his meals , and kept sober . Perhaps the hilarious strains of music which sometimes issued at midnight from the upper window of the north gable were not just what a quiet , unostentatious family would desire ; but on the whole there was not much to complain of . The third week witnessed a falling off . Though always promptly on hand at the serving out of rations , Mr. O'Rourke did not even make a pretence of working in the garden . He would disappear mysteriously immediately after breakfast , and reappear with supernatural abruptness at dinner .