twenty minutes past three in the morning
It was imagination , he knew , at work again , but it was Jackson who had loosed its springs . `` Can you see your watch , George ? '' he whispered to Dalton . `` Yes , and its says only twenty minutes past three in the morning . '' `` And our signal guns began about twenty minutes ago . They will have nearly four hours in which to work before the sun rises and we can see them well enough to take good aim . '' `` And maybe longer than that , Harry .