midday
`` Now , '' Dick said , `` it is time for me to be off . I have got a good seventy miles to ride to Lucknow . It is no use my thinking of going after the column , for they would be some fifty miles away from the place where we left them by to morrow night . If I can get a good horse I may be at Lucknow by midday to-morrow . The horses have all had a rest to-day . Sir Colin will , I am sure , send off at once , and the troops will march well to effect a rescue . They will make thirty-five miles before they halt for the night , and will be here by the following night . ''