about noon
We trust that we have not omitted here the name of any officer present at Ridgeway . If it should ever appear that we have done so , it will be a source of great pain to us , although we can plead in apology that every effort was made on our part to procure a complete list . Seeing that there was not much to be made out of Fort Erie , the two comrades , Black Jack and the Kid , moved cautiously in the rear of the troops as they fell down the river ; their intention being to remain concealed in the vicinity of any point at which an engagement might take place , and then trust to chance for an opportunity of rifling the dead or picking up whatever spoils happened to drop in their way . While deliberating upon this creditable resolve , about noon , as they had made a detour and pushed ahead of the troops , who were going into camp , their attention was arrested by the noise of some vehicle coming up a side road across which they were wending their way . In the course of a few moments they discovered that it was the wagon of Wilson , driven by that worthy , in the direction of the village of Waterloo ; he evidently not having , as yet , heard of the Province being invaded . Immediately a conference took place between the three friends , when it was agreed that Wilson 's wagon should be concealed in a wooded hollow close by , and that it should be made the receptacle of whatever plunder might be secured during the struggle that they all felt must soon take place . Consequently , the team was turned aside , and , after being unhitched , was secured in a close clump of trees , that was not likely to be visited by any persons in the vicinity ; and more particularly so , when the country was now being alarmed throughout , and people were securing themselves in their habitations .