twelve o'clock
`` Now , here is another matter of much more importance . '' He showed , but retained , another envelope . `` Behind the house where you 're to find Miss Rothvelt there 's a road into Cole 's Creek bottom . The house you 're to stop at to-night , say from twelve o'clock till three or half-past , is on that road , about five miles from Wiggins , from Clifton and from Fayette . I 'm sending you there expecting the people in that house will rob you if you give them half a chance . '' `` I understand , General ; they 'll not get it . '' `` Smith , I want them to get it .