about two
o'clock in the morning
Your wounds are not in themselves serious , and the only thing that ails you is loss of blood . We must risk a little accession of fever for the sake of giving you strength . When you have had your supper , you had best both get to sleep , if you can , for an hour or two . Whatever arrangements we make will be for about two o'clock in the morning . And now good-bye for the present ; keep up your spirits , and remember that even should any unexpected accident upset our plans for to-night , we will carry them out to-morrow night , as the court-martial will not take place till the afternoon , and there will be at least twenty-four , probably forty-eight hours , between the sentence and its execution . '' So saying , the doctor took his departure , leaving the lads far more cheerful and confident than they had been when he entered . He seemed indeed to regard the success of the attempt which would be made for their evasion as secured .