six in
the morning
We found the sergeant fast asleep . It was more difficult to get him awake than to get him into the ambulance . Reed and I picked him up bodily and laid him down on a mattress in the bottom of the vehicle . And now , with my load of personal duty gone , I also sank back and slumbered through a troubled night , and when I fully awoke it was six in the morning and we were crossing Long Bridge in the midst of a driving rain . There were two seats in the ambulance , besides a double-deck , that is to say , two floors for wounded to lie upon . I scrambled to the rear seat . We were making but slow progress .