five o'clock
They were to go at ten that morning to Wilmington , by the Navy Department 's special messenger . I had taken them to insure care and certainty . I had worked on them till midnight , and they had not been signed till near one o'clock . Heavens and earth , and here it was five o'clock ! The man must be half-way to Wilmington by this time . I sent the doctor for Lafarge , my clerk . Lafarge did his prettiest in rushing to the telegraph .