midnight
He got all he could out of you and me , but that was n't much . Then he had the native servant of the general in his pay . As soon as you left on the night before the battle he cleared out too , and he got a statement from the native servant of all the general intended to do . He got the news to Gomaldo by midnight , and before sunrise the Cubapino forces were ready to meet each of our columns when they advanced . They had ambushes prepared for each of them . If the orders had gone out straight we 'd have been cleaned out , that 's my opinion . But you see , they all went wrong and the columns advanced along different roads , and poor Gomaldo 's plans all went to pot .