eight in the evening
As I thanked him he gave me this order : `` _ To Major Tallmadge : _ `` The bearer , Hugh Wynne , Esq. , Captain , Second Company , Third Regiment of Pennsylvania foot , has herewith permission to visit Major Andre . `` GEO -LRB- E -RRB- WASHINGTON . `` October 1 , 1780 . '' I went at once -- it was now close to eight in the evening -- to the small house of one Maby , where the prisoner was kept . It was but an hundred yards from his Excellency 's quarters . Six sentries marched to and fro around it , and within the room two officers remained day and night with drawn swords . My pass was taken at the door of the house , while I waited on the road without .