about one o’clock
In the course of the morrow , one of the gendarmes , who was a tailor , agreed to make him a sergeant 's uniform . He was to pass as a member of the brigade at Sons-le-Saulnier , and , thanks to the uniform , could direct the search at the Chartreuse without being recognized . Everything happened as planned . Roland entered the barracks with the captain about one o'clock , ascended to the latter 's room , where he slept on a bed on the floor like a man who has just passed two days and two nights in a post-chaise . The next day he restrained his impatience by drawing a plan of the Chartreuse of Seillon for the captain 's instruction , with which , even without Roland 's help , that worthy officer could have directed the expedition without going an inch astray . As the captain had but eighteen men under him , and it was not possible to surround the monastery completely with that number , or rather , to guard the two exits and make a thorough search through the interior , and , as it would have taken three or four days to bring in all the men of the brigade scattered throughout the neighborhood , the officer , by Roland 's order , went to the colonel of dragoons , garrisoned at Bourg , told him of the matter in hand , and asked for twelve men , who , with his own , made thirty in all . The colonel not only granted the twelve men , but , learning that the expedition was to be commanded by Colonel Roland de Montrevel , aide-de-camp to the First Consul , he proposed that he himself should join the party at the head of his twelve men .