ten o'clock
`` Eaucourt by the waters ! '' sighed Gaspard . `` That the same land should hold that treasure and this foul city ! '' Their horses , rested and fed , carried them well on the north road , but by ten o'clock they had overtaken no travellers , save a couple of servants , on sorry nags , who wore the Vidame of Amiens ' livery . They were well beyond Oise ere they saw in the bottom of a grassy vale a little knot of men . `` I make out six , '' said Champernoun , who had a falcon 's eye . `` Two priests and four men-at-arms .