midnight
It had been permitted to us to bury the body with Christian rites , if we could do it in secret . The young man threw himself over the lifeless body . Then , clasping his sister in his arms , the two wept together in silence for some while . At midnight we held a quiet service over the remains of the Rector of Veilbye , and the body was buried near the door of Aalso church . A simple stone , upon which I have carved a cross , still stands to remind the passer-by of the sin of a most unfortunate man . The next morning his two children had disappeared . They have never been heard of since .