ten o'clock
Five minutes more the Assembly , not Taps , was sounding . Plume was sending forth his fifty rescuers , and with them , impatient for tidings from the far front , went Byrne , the major himself following as soon as he could change to riding dress . The last seen of the little command was the glinting of the starlight on the gun barrels as they forded the rippling stream and took the trail up the narrow , winding valley of the Beaver . It was then a little after ten o'clock . The wire to Prescott was still unresponsive . Nothing had been heard from the linesmen and their escort , indicating that the break was probably far over as the Agua Fria . Not a sign , except Stout 's signal blazes at the _ picacho _ , had been gathered from the front .