about noon
`` But wait , '' urged Rozales . `` Let the stranger ride in command , with a half-dozen picked men who will see that nothing goes wrong . An hour before dawn I will send two men -- they will be our best shots -- on ahead . They will stop at a place we both know , and about noon the Captain Byrne and his escort will ride back to camp and tell us that they were attacked by a troop of Villa 's men , and that both our guests were killed . It will be sad ; but it will not be our fault . We will swear vengeance upon Villa , and the Captain Byrne will hate him as a good Pesitista should . '' `` You have the cunning of the Coyote , my captain , '' cried Pesita .