four o'clock in the
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`` I have a wife and two little children in one of those houses . Speaking for myself and all the rest of us , too , I can not thank you too much , young sir , for coming to the fort with this warning . '' `` It is what we always owe to one another in the woods , '' said Henry . `` I think it likely that they will attack about three or four o'clock in the morning . If I were you , sir , I 'd have coffee served to the riflemen , that is , if you have coffee . '' `` We have it , '' said the Major , and soon the women were preparing the coffee . Everybody drank , and then the riflemen resumed their watch upon the forest .