four o'clock
Dr. Graham had lost no moment of time in reaching the stricken sentry . Todd had been sent back to Blakely 's bedside and Downs to fetch a lantern . They found the latter , five minutes later , stumbling about the Trumans ' kitchen , weeping for that which was lost , and the sergeant of the guard collared and cuffed him over to the guard-house -- one witness , at least , out of the way . At four o'clock the doctor was working over his exhausted and unconscious patient at the hospital . Mullins had been stabbed twice , and dangerously , and half a dozen men with lanterns were hunting about the bloody sands where the faithful fellow had dropped , looking for a weapon or a clew , and probably trampling out all possibility of finding either . Major Plume , through Mr. Doty , his adjutant , had felt it necessary to remind Captain Wren that an officer in close arrest had no right to be away from his quarters . Late in the evening , it seems , Dr. Graham had represented to the post commander that the captain was in so nervous and overwrought a condition , and so distressed , that as a physician he recommended his patient be allowed the limits of the space adjoining his quarters in which to walk off his superabundant excitement .