About eight o'clock
Keep your men close from this hour on , Sandy . Hereafter let five of them sleep in our bunks during the day , and keep them awake during the night . '' Five days passed without a sign of an enemy . About eight o'clock on the night of the sixth MacDougall came into the office , where Philip was alone . The young Scotchman 's usually florid face was white . He dropped a curse as he grasped the back of a chair with both hands . It was the third or fourth time that Philip had heard MacDougall swear .