midnight
If he only had a hundred cavalry , thought Miller , he could head them off and prevent their return to the reservation , where , once they crossed the lines , they were perfectly safe and could not be touched . All told , however , Terry could only take with him some thirty men , and he was glad indeed to have McLean as a volunteer . It was about noon when the ambulances came in from the Chugwater , bringing Mr. Blunt and the other wounded . The assistant surgeon of the post had ridden out with them at midnight , soon after the receipt of the news ; and now , while the soldiers were taken to the post hospital and comfortably established there , Mr. Blunt was carried up-stairs in the north hall of `` Bedlam '' and stowed away in the room opposite Hatton 's . Mrs. Forrest , poor lady , nearly went into hysterics as the young soldier was lifted out of the ambulance . Day and night her soul was tortured with the dread that at any moment news might come that her husband was either killed or wounded , -- and in the art of borrowing trouble she was more than an adept . Her lamentations were so loud and voluble that Miss Forrest quietly but very positively took her by the arms and marched her off the piazza into her own room , where Celestine was `` trotting '' the baby to sleep and nodding on the verge of a nap on her own account .