half after ten o'clock
You may know it by the white banner a monk will bear , with a picture of the Madonna painted on it . _ The Princess Irene marches next after the banner . _ '' Mahommed asked for the time . It was half after ten o'clock . In a few minutes the door was thronged by mounted officers , who , upon receiving a verbal message from him , sped away fast as they could go . Thereupon the conflict was reopened . Indeed , it raged more fiercely than at any previous time , the slingers and bowmen being pushed up to the outer edge of the moat , and the machines of every kind plied over their heads .