about eleven o'clock
That had been secretly loaded and promptly at twelve o'clock was to be fired off . Immediately the revolutionists would seize their concealed arms , attack the comandante 's troops in the cuartel , and capture the custom-house and all government property and supplies . `` I was nervous all the morning . And about eleven o'clock O'Connor became infused with the excitement and martial spirit of murder . He geared his father 's sword around him , and walked up and down in the back room like a lion in the Zoo suffering from corns . I smoked a couple of dozen cigars , and decided on yellow stripes down the trouser legs of my uniform . `` At half-past eleven O'Connor asks me to take a short stroll through the streets to see if I could notice any signs of the uprising .