ten o'clock
The attacking party consisted of McKildrick , Roddy , and Peter . When the day 's task on the light-house was finished and the other workmen had returned to the city , these three men remained behind and , placing crowbars , picks , and sticks of dynamite in Roddy 's launch , proceeded to a little inlet a half-mile below El Morro . By seven o'clock they had made their way through the laurel to the fortress , and while Roddy and Peter acted as lookouts McKildrick attacked the entrance to the tunnel . He did not , as he had boasted , open it in an hour , but by ten o'clock the iron bars that held the slabs together had been cut and the cement loosened . Fearful of the consequences if they returned to the city at too late an hour , the tools and dynamite were hidden , rubbish and vines were so scattered as to conceal the evidence of their work , and the launch landed the conspirators at Roddy 's wharf . `` We shall say , '' explained Roddy , `` that we have been out spearing eels , and I suggest that we now go to the _ Dos Hermanos _ and say it . '' They found the café , as usual , crowded .