two in the morning
It was the young officer you insulted . '' But Murray 's only answer at the moment was a demand that Hunt shut up and let him go to sleep . The last thing Stuyvesant remembered before dozing off was that the smell of those journal-boxes was getting worse . At two in the morning , in the heart of the desert , the conductor had made his way through the train and remarked that , despite that unpleasant odor , every man of the recruit detachment was sound asleep . In a berth next the door the steward of the dining-car had found room , and the entire car seemed wrapped in repose . Five minutes later by the watch , it was wrapped in flames . Speaking of the matter later in the morning , the brakeman said it did n't seem ten seconds after he had pulled the bell-rope and given the alarm before Lieutenant Stuyvesant , a tall , slim figure in pajamas and slippers , came bounding to his aid .