three o'clock in the morning
`` I had no doubt that you would give a good account of yourself , as you always do . You were going on the enemy 's territory , and you were in peril all the time . Now you come off in a schooner , which appears to be loaded with cotton , and how or where you picked her up is a mystery to me ; '' and the commander indulged in a laugh at the oddity of the young officer 's reappearance . `` Your messenger reported that the Trafalgar would sail at three o'clock in the morning , and I judge that she left at about that hour . '' `` Within ten minutes of it , and probably made an arrangement with the commandant of the fort to that effect , '' added Christy . `` But they do not call her the Trafalgar now ; though Weeks was not aware of the fact when I sent him on board . She is now the Tallahatchie , though I noticed that some in the vicinity of the fort still called her by her old name . ''