midnight
Unobtrusive , silent , they had waited , watched , till the Ry of Rys should come back home again . Home to them was the open road where Romanys trailed or camped the world over . A clot of blood in the heart had been the verdict of the doctors ; and Lebanon and Manitou had watched the Ry of Rys carried by his own people to the open prairie near to Tekewani 's reservation . There , in the hours between the midnight and the dawn , all Gabriel Druse 's personal belongings -- the clothes , the chair in which he sat , the table at which he ate , the bed in which he slept , were brought forth and made into a pyre , as was the Romany way . Nothing personal of his chattels remained behind . The walking-stick which lay beside him in the moment of his death was the last thing placed upon the pyre . Then came the match , and the flames made ashes of all those things which once he called his own .