ten o'clock
Then if they have five hours ' rest they will catch the infantry up before daybreak , and attack just as it gets light . Those light Punjaub horse can do it . Now , which regiments shall we send ? '' A quarter of an hour later bugles were blowing , and by ten o'clock three hundred British infantry were packed in light carts , and the cavalry and guns were drawn up in readiness . Dick took his place in the ambulance carriage , as , although greatly refreshed , he had had plenty of riding for a time , and in the ambulance he could lie down , and get through the journey without fatigue . Sir Colin himself rode up just as they were starting , and shook hands with Dick , and expressed his warm hope that he would find his friends safe at the end of the journey , and then the cavalry started . Dick has always asserted that never in his life did he make such a short journey as that .