midnight
`` We will sleep a while and begin to-morrow . Besides , Eph is with him . I feel it -- he 'll take keer o ' him . '' That is how it came that at midnight , that Saturday night , the old Bishop brought home a strange man to live in the little cabin in his yard . That is how , a week later , all the South was stirred over the strange return of a fortune to the different corporations from which it had been taken , accompanied by a drawling note from Jack Bracken saying he returned ill-gotten gain to live a better life . It ended laconically : '' _ An ' maybe you 'd better go an ' do likewise . _ '' The dim starlight was shining faintly through the cracks of the outlaw 's future home when the old man showed him in .