four in the afternoon
I must be off again , Mrs. Hargreaves ; I really only came to explain why I did not come yesterday , and only got leave for an hour , so I have come at a trot all the way . '' And so Dick made off again ; and as he shook hands with them , he could feel that Nelly had not yet forgiven the coldness of his last good-by . Upon the previous day all the sick and wounded had been moved to the Dil Koosha ; that done , the very large amount of money , amounting to nearly a quarter of a million , in the government treasury , was removed , together with such stores as were required . Then the guns were silently withdrawn from the batteries , and at half-past four in the afternoon the emigration of the women and children commenced . All had to walk to the Secunderbagh , along a road strewn with _ débris _ , and ankle deep in sand , and in some places exposed to a heavy fire . At one of these points a strong party of seamen were stationed , among whom Dick was on duty . As each party of women arrived at the spot they were advised to stoop low , and to run across at full speed , as the road being a little sunk , they thus escaped observation by the enemy , whose battery was at some little distance , but the grape whistled thickly overhead , and several were wounded as they passed .