seven o'clock
`` Be here at the edge of the river at six o'clock , sergeant . I can get away at that time without exciting comment , and we will say nothing about it unless we succeed . '' Thinking it over , however , it occurred to Malcolm that by this means a day would be lost -- and he knew how anxious the king was to press forward . He therefore abandoned his idea of keeping his discovery secret , and going to his colonel reported that he had found a boat , and could bring it across from the other side by seven o'clock . The news was so important that Munro at once went to the king . Gustavus ordered three hundred Swedes and a hundred Scots of each of the regiments of Ramsay , Munro , and the Laird of Wormiston , the whole under the command of Count Brahe , to form up after dark on the river bank and prepare to cross , and he himself came down to superintend the passage . By six it was perfectly dark .