nearly noon
we 've got 'em ! '' he cried over and over again . `` So we have , '' said Dick , `` we 'll be marching in a half hour and then the trap will shut down so tight on Robert Lee that he 'll never raise the lid again . '' It was nearly noon , and they expected every moment the order to start , but it did not come . Dick began to be tormented by an astonished impatience , and he saw that Colonel Winchester suffered in the same way . The army showed no signs of moving . Was it possible that McClellan would not advance at once on Lee , whom the scouts had now located definitely ?