nine o'clock
`` I will write my despatch . It will be ready for you to carry in an hour 's time . You had better pick out a couple of good donkeys , from those we captured here . As it is only nine o'clock , you will be able to get to Mugatta this evening . I do n't think there is any fear of your being interfered with , by the Dervishes . We may be sure that Fadil is not allowing his men to roam over the country , for there can be little doubt that a good many of them would desert , as soon as they got fairly beyond his camp . '' `` I do n't think there is any fear of that , sir ; and as my camels will have had ten days ' rest , I should have very little fear of being overtaken , even if they did sight us . ''