two o'clock in the morning
For he was bound for Liverpool that day , where he was to meet Captain Will Arnutt , of the Royal North-west Mounted Police of Canada , with whom he was to embark for Halifax , _ en route _ for Regina , in Saskatchewan , the headquarters of the R.N.W.M.P. , for which fine service Dick Vaughan had enlisted , after a stiff course of training under Captain Arnutt 's personal supervision . `` Between ourselves , '' the captain had told the Master , in Lewes , a week or two earlier , `` neither I nor the Royal North-west have much to teach young Vaughan in the matter of horsemanship , and I look to see him make as fine a trooper as any we 've got . But there 's one thing we can give him , and that 's discipline . We can teach him to face the devil himself at two o'clock in the morning without blinking -- and I think he 'll take it well . I do n't mind a scrap about his having been a bit wild . He 's got the right stuff in him ; and , man , he 's got as pretty a punch , with the gloves on , as ever I saw in my life . An archangel could n't make better use of his left than young Vaughan . ''