midnight
`` Well , they went last night to have some fun with Sam Lyman . '' `` Ah , and they took him out and whipped him ? '' `` Well , hardly . He wore out a chair over them , and about three miles from town , I understand that old Doc Mason has been kept pretty busy since midnight sewing up their heads . Lyman did n't tell me , but I got it pretty straight that somebody stole the pistol out of his room ; and if it had n't been for that the undertaker would have had no cause to complain of the dullness of the season . '' `` You do n't tell me ! '' `` Yes , I am inclined to think I do .