one in the morning
Face-of-god had knit his brows and become gloomy of countenance ; but now his face cleared , and he set his hand to his pouch , and drew forth a written parchment , and said : ` This is the order whereof I have bethought me . Before the Folk-mote I and the Wardens shall speak to the leaders of hundreds , who be mostly here at the Fair , and give them the day and the hour whereon they shall , each hundred , take their weapons and wend to Shadowy Vale , and also the place where they shall meet the men of yours who shall lead them across the Waste . These hundred-leaders shall then go straightway and give the word to the captains of scores , and the captains of scores to the captains of tens ; and if , as is scarce doubtful , the Folk-mote yea-says the onslaught and the fellowship with you of the Wolf , then shall those leaders of tens bring their men to the trysting-place , and so go their ways to Shadowy Vale . Now here I have the roll of our Weapon-show , and I will look to it that none shall be passed over ; and if ye ask me in what order they had best get on the way , my rede is that a two hundred should depart on the very evening of the day of the Folk-mote , and these to be of our folk of the Upper Dale ; and on the morning of the morrow of the Folk-mote another two hundreds from the Dale ; and in the evening of the same day the folk of the Shepherds , three hundreds or more , and that will be easy to them ; again on the next day two more bands of the Lower Dale , one in the morning , one in the evening . Lastly , in the earliest dawn of the third day from the Folk-mote shall the Woodlanders wend their ways . But one hundred of men let us leave behind for the warding of the Burg , even as we agreed before . As for the place of tryst for the faring over the Waste , let it be the end of the knolls just by the jaws of the pass yonder , where the Weltering Water comes into the Dale from the East .