midnight
I have affected perfect credulity in order to throw the Hickeys and countryfolk off their guard with me . I have listened to their method of convincing the sceptical strangers . I have examined the ordnance maps , and cross-examined the neighboring Protestant gentlefolk . I have spent a day upon the ground on each side of the water , and have visited it at midnight . I have considered the upheaval theories , subsidence theories , volcanic theories , and tidal wave theories which the provincial savants have suggested . They are all untenable . There is only one scoffer in the district , an Orangeman ; and he admits the removal of the cemetery , but says it was dug up and transplanted in the night by a body of men under the command of Father Tom .