nine o'clock
I play you to win . Now , get to your tent , and sleep . Daybreak is the word . ' `` At nine o'clock on the morning of the eighteenth of July I rode into Aguas Frias with Kearny at my side . In his clean linen suit and with his military poise and keen eye he was a model of a fighting adventurer . I had visions of him riding as commander of President Valdevia 's body-guard when the plums of the new republic should begin to fall . `` Carlos followed with the troops and supplies .