Two o'clock in the morning
`` What time is it ? '' `` Two o'clock of a clear , starlight morning , and all 's well , '' answered Harvey ; and this made it plain that if he was not a soldier he was learning to be one , for he knew how to pass the sentry 's call . '' _ Well _ ; of all the dunderheads _ I _ ever heard of that Tom Percival is the biggest , '' thought Rodney , who had never in his life been more astounded . `` Two o'clock in the morning and he lying fast asleep there in the corn-crib when he ought to be miles away ! If I had known he was going to act like that , I would have seen him happy before I would have risked my neck trying to save his . '' Rodney turned over on the other side with an angry flop and tried to go to sleep again ; but that was quite out of the question . He could do nothing but rail at Tom for his stupidity , and wonder if the latter would have sense enough to hide the revolver before Mr. Westall or some other Emergency man went into his prison in the morning to bring him out .