midnight
Full of the glorious bursting weight of good news , I looked down upon our batmen at work in the cookhouse , and roared : `` Pack the valises . We 're off to-night . '' I rushed into the dug-out . `` Get up , '' I commanded Monty ; `` we leave by ship at midnight . '' Never did an invalid with a broken back leap so easily out of his bed , as did Monty . He assured me , however , in an apologetic way , that he had been feeling much better even before he had the news . `` Now you know , '' said he , `` what the Special Order about holding Helles was for -- to deceive old Tomfool Turk ; and why those regiments from Suvla were landed here -- to appear to the Turk like reinforcements , but really to conduct the evacuation at Helles , having learnt the job at Suvla ; and why we wanted the Turkish aeroplanes to get back with news of our landing of troops -- but , my bonny lad , for every two hundred we land by day , we 'll take off two thousand by night ! ''