midnight
, the sovereign judge , Our Lord , says to him . Your error is gross enough to wipe away a whole life of virtue ... . Ah ! You have stolen a midnight mass from Me ... . Oh , yes you did ! You will pay for your sin three hundred times over , in the proper place , and you will enter paradise only when you will have celebrated three hundred midnight masses , in your own chapel , in front of all those who have sinned with you , through your most grievous fault ... . Well , that 's that , the true story of Dom Balaguère as told in the land of the olive .