ten o'clock
`` How well you speak Spanish ! It will be a great pleasure to visit American boys who can speak my language , for I know but few English words . '' `` Next Saturday , then ? '' `` At ten o'clock , if the padres consent . Good-bye , '' and Manuel disappeared into the school-room . The following Saturday I saw the two corporals and their newly acquired companion at the post and at dinner in the mess-room , and a friendship was then formed which was to continue for many years . One evening , nearly a month afterwards , I received an order to march my company into the Jemez Mountains to co-operate with other detached commands in a war being carried on against the Navajo Indians .