noon
Jack wheeled his horse and brought him alongside of Georges ' wiry mount . `` It did n't last long -- eh , old chap ? '' laughed the youthful hussar ; `` only from ten o'clock till noon -- eh ? It 's not quite noon yet . We 're to join the regiment , but where we 're going after that I do n't know . They say the Prussians have quit Saarbrück in a hurry . I suppose we 'll be in Germany to-night , and then -- vlan !