two o'clock
The feet of hurrying orderlies beat upon the parade-ground , the windows of the Officers ' Club blazed defiantly , and from the darkened quarters of the enlisted men came the sound of voices snarling in violent vituperation . At midnight , half of Ranson 's troop , having attacked the rest of the regiment with cavalry-boots , were marched under arrest to the guard-house . As they passed Ranson 's hut , where he still paced the veranda , a burning cigarette attesting his wakefulness , they cheered him riotously . At two o'clock it was announced from the hospital that both patients were out of danger ; for it had developed that , in his hurried diagnosis , Sergeant Clancey had located Henderson 's heart six inches from where it should have been . When one of the men who guarded Ranson reported this good news the prisoner said , `` Still , I hope they 'll hang whoever did it . They should n't hang a man for being a good shot and let him off because he 's a bad one . '' At the time of the hold-up Mary Cahill had been a half-mile distant from the post at the camp of the Kiowas , where she had gone in answer to the cry of Lightfoot 's squaw .