two o'clock
`` I 've just telephoned over , and I hear that folks are packed in so tightly at the Army show that the people are able to breathe only half the usual number of times to the minute . '' `` Then they 'll hit us just as bad to-night , '' growled Spangleton . `` Howe , with the Army to play against , we 'd save money by pulling down our tents now and striking the rails for the next stand . '' Just a minute or so before two o'clock the artillery band left the bandstand and marched back to camp . Now , all in an instant , the military parade formed . At the head was the cavalry band , followed by a squadron -LRB- two troops or companies -RRB- of splendidly mounted fighting men , their accoutrements jingling . As the cavalry , its band blaring joyously , passed out before the people , the Signal Corps men followed on foot .