five o'clock
`` The Salisbury people know of this rising , then ? '' I asked . `` Yes , sah . Dem know since five o'clock . Kaffir boys from Klaas 's brought in de news ; and a white man escaped from Rozenboom 's confirm it . We have pickets all round . You is safe now ; you can ride on into Salisbury witout fear of de Matabele . ''