nine o'clock in the evening
`` I was just thinking , when you spoke , that we were running into a nest of the enemy . '' `` Just before the battle of the Alma , I went on just such an expedition as this ; but we went down the river beyond the enemy 's lines , and doubled up in the rear of them ; thus finding out all we wanted to know . '' `` That is what I propose to do . '' `` Captain Brickfield and myself landed , and walked sixty-four miles between nine o'clock in the evening and four o'clock in the morning , '' added Captain de Banyan . `` How far ? '' `` Sixty-four miles . '' `` Good ! ''