midnight
`` You bet it , will , '' asserted Monkey Stallings stoutly . `` I always did think I 'd like to spend just one night in a house they said was haunted . To tell you the honest-truth I 'm real glad you asked me to come along , Alec , even if there does seem to be a queer feeling running up and down my backbone . I never knew the like before save that time I was dared to walk through the graveyard at midnight , and some fellows tried to scare me with their old sheets . Huh ! I had made sure to carry Tige , my bulldog , hid under my coat , and I just let him loose . It makes me sick with laughing even now when I remember how those sillies tore off , with that pup snapping at their legs . ''