one in the morning
`` Then we 're opposite the Narrows , '' Roy answered breathlessly . `` Just so , '' said Ken , but though he spoke quietly enough , he , too , felt a thrill . For five long hours they had been pushing east , or rather south-eastwards . They had crossed the main road leading to Great Maidos , they had had hairbreadth escapes sufficient to last most folk for a lifetime , and now at a little after one in the morning , they had crossed the whole peninsula , and were facing the famous Narrows , with their double cordon of forts on both sides of the Straits , the nut which for so many weeks all the Powers of the British and French combined had been engaged in trying to crack . -LSB- Illustration : `` That 's either Fort Degetman or Kalis Bahr . '' -RSB- Opposite , a few scattered lights showed where lay the town of Chanak on the Asiatic side of the Narrows . From forts along that coast also , there now and then darted a spit of flame , while half a minute or so later the dull roar of the report would reverberate through the night .