about one o'clock in the morning
But he was not ; nor by an hour later . Then we decided that we must go out to look for him . `` We ca n't see nothin ' till daylight , '' said Bagsby , `` but we can get started back for the last place we saw him . '' It was now about one o'clock in the morning . Bagsby appointed Vasquez , Missouri Jones , Buck Barry , Yank and myself to accompany him . Don Gaspar was suffering from a slight attack of malarial fever ; and Johnny , to his vast disgust , was left to hold him company . We took each a horse , which we had to ride bareback and with a twisted rope `` war halter . ''