about half past eleven o'clock
What time do you go on ? '' `` Twelve o'clock . Then I am to relieve Ned Lowe . '' Randy retired early , and was awakened about half past eleven o'clock . Then he dressed , got a cup of the hot chocolate that one of the cook 's helpers had ready for the sentries , and then went out to join the detail which was to go on guard from midnight until four o'clock in the morning . The post which Ned Lowe had covered , and which was turned over to Randy , lay on the far side of the camp , not a great distance from where the cliffs overlooked the bay . It was a lonely spot , particularly on a night like this , when the sky was overcast and a rising wind was moaning through the branches of the trees .