about two in the morning
Then , in the night _ and _ a howling snow-storm , he 'd dropped over the edge of the khud , made his way down to the bottom of the gorge , forded the nullah , which was half frozen , climbed up on the other side along a track he 'd discovered , and come out on the right flank of the Khye-Kheens . He had then -- listen to this ! -- crossed over a ridge that paralleled their rear , walked half a mile behind that , and come out on the left of their line where the gorge gets shallow and where there was a regular track between the Malot and the Khye-Kheen camps . That was about two in the morning , and , as it turned out , a man spotted him -- a Khye-Kheen . So Stalky abolished him quietly , and left him -- _ with _ the Malot mark on his chest , same as Everett had . `` ` I was just as economical as I could be , ' Stalky said to us . ` If he 'd shouted I should have been slain .