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`` Better not , '' I decided . `` Might tip them off to what we suspect . And we do n't really need one : Sir Rodney will have patrols out far enough to get warning in time . '' We took an hour , at noon , for lunch , and then it began again . By 1647 , fifteen minutes before court should be adjourned , Judge Nelson ordered the bailiff to turn the clock back to 1300 . The clock was turned back again when it reached 1645 . By this time , Clement Sidney was probably the most unpopular man on New Texas .