seven o'clock
Whatsoever booty there may be obtainable in that rocky cañon 't is well worth the attempt . And so from north to south the puff-balls of blue-white smoke go sailing upward through the pines , and it all means speed ! speed ! At seven o'clock the little command has had coffee and a hearty breakfast . No lack of provender here in this hitherto undiscovered robbers ' roost . Drummond , cool , confident , has had his men about him where none others could see or hear , has assigned them the stations which they are to take the instant of alarm , and has given them their instructions . Walsh it is who is now on lookout , and he is peering away down southward so intently that some comrade is prompted to call up to him in a low tone , -- `` See anything ? ''