Midnight
Which was the more eloquent apology ! Jerry never referred to the lady in green , then or afterwards ; he was willing to let well enough alone ; but whenever his spouse passed a certain line , which , being a Stover of Scarboro , she was likely to do about once in six months , he had only to summon his recreant courage and glance meaningly behind the kitchen door , where the birch broom hung on a nail . It was a simple remedy to outward appearances , but made his declining years more comfortable . I can hardly believe that he ever took Pel Frost into his confidence , but Pel certainly was never more interesting to the loafers ' bench than when he told the story of the eventful trip of the Midnight Cry and `` the breaking in of the Widder Bixby . '' 1 . On page 20 , reentered is spelled with diaeresis over the second `` e '' . 2 .