about five o'clock
At least , if I do I must get up as an old man and change my appearance . I might go as a woman , but I am too tall in the first place , and then women do n't go wandering over the country in such times as this . But there , I have time to think it over before morning . I suppose the general will be moving about five o'clock ; I will see him the first thing , and tell him the whole story . Good-night . '' And so Tom went back to his quarters , and sat thinking deeply until morning , while Sam sat gloomily in his little room , sometimes with tears rolling down his cheeks , sometimes muttering terrible threats against the guerillas , at other times cursing himself for having been asleep instead of watching over his young master 's safety . Tom had briefly told him that he intended to get leave in order to search for Peter .