twelve o'clock
If I do not want it , myself , it may turn out useful to keep up some wounded comrade . It will not add much to the load that I shall have to carry , and which I expect I shall feel , when we first march . As I am now , I think I could keep up with the best marcher in the regiment but , with the weight of the clothes and pouches , a hundred and twenty rounds of ammunition , and my rifle , it will be a very different thing ; and I shall be desperately tired , by the time we get to the end of the day 's march . `` Now it is twelve o'clock , and time to turn in , for we march at five . '' The next morning , when the sick convoy started , the white officers came up to say goodbye to Lisle ; and all expressed their regret that he could not accompany the regiment . The butler had gone on ahead and , as soon as Lisle slipped away , he came up to him and assisted him to make his toilet . He stained him from head to foot , dyed his hair , and fastened in it some long bunches of black horse hair , which he would wear in the Punjabi fashion on the top of his head .