three o'clock
This is my first command on detached duty . You and I have often remarked upon the reckless ways of our leaders . We have an opportunity now of carrying our own ideas into effect . '' At three o'clock Jacob visited the outposts . All was still , and nothing had occurred to give rise to any suspicion of the vicinity of an enemy . Half an hour later one of the advanced pickets galloped in . They heard , he said , a noise as of a large body of horse , away to the right , and it seemed as if it was proceeding toward Chalcombe , the village where Sir Ralph Willoughby 's troop was quartered .