midnight on Wednesday
In a word , Delgratz wanted peace . Toward that end , the Seventh Regiment continued to occupy the Black Castle , the remainder of the troops stood fast , and the citizens pulled down their barricades . Oddly enough , the Paris correspondent of `` The Budapest Gazette '' pointed out that Prince Michael 's son was playing polo in the Bois during the afternoon of Tuesday . The journalist little dreamed that Alec was reading his sarcastic comments on the Delgrado lack of initiative at Budapest at midnight on Wednesday . The train was about to cross the River Tave -LRB- Delgratz stands on the junction of that stream and the Danube -RRB- when Stampoff appeared . The Albanian servant accompanied him . `` Leave everything to Bosko , '' said the General .