nine o'clock
`` Oh , he crumpled 'em up , all right ! He had n't ground out one belt of cartridges before he had 'em on the run . But I want to tell you I did n't linger around to see how the next affair would turn out . I legged it back where I 'd come from , and by nine o'clock I was behind our own lines , trying to find out what sort of campaign this was that left one machine gun to stave off the whole Turkish army . Of course no one knew anything very definite . The best guess was that our advance had been swung off for a flank movement , and that this particular one-man battery had been overlooked . I do n't even know whether he was picked up again , or whether the Turks finally got him ; but let me tell you , talk as much about your gallant Bulgarians as you like , some of those little Greeks were good fighters too .