midnight
The village had disappeared . Only Van Ness was standing by his side . `` But as the villagers had promised Wollin a holy day once in a hundred years , so once in a hundred years these people are permitted to rise with their village into the light of the sun for a single day . If on that day a stranger visits them whose heart is untrue he disappears with them at midnight . Such is the story . You will hardly believe it true . '' The student crossed himself , and went on his journey towards the Rhine . ''