three in the morning
Where is the castor-oil , Bessie ? There is nothing like castor-oil for these patent axles . You ought to be off in an hour . You had better sleep at Luck 's to-night ; you might get farther , but Luck 's is a good place to stop , and they will look after you well there , and you an be off by three in the morning , reaching Heidelberg by ten o'clock to-morrow night , and Pretoria by the next afternoon , '' and he bustled away to make the necessary preparations . `` Oh , John , '' said Bessie , beginning to cry , `` I do n't like your going at all among all those wild Boers . You are an English officer , and if they find you out they will shoot you . You do n't know what brutes some of them are when they think it safe to be so .