about five o'clock
`` No one has any doubt about that , at Omdurman , '' Gregory said . `` After all the expense and trouble we have had to retake the Soudan , it is not likely that we should let anyone else plant themselves on the road to the great lakes . `` When will you be at Abu Hamed , sir ? '' `` We shall be there about five o'clock -- at any rate , I think you may safely reckon on catching the morning train . It goes , I think , at eight . '' `` I am sure to catch a train , soon , for orders have been sent down that railway materials shall be sent up , as quickly as possible ; as it has been decided that the railway shall be carried on , at once , to Khartoum . I expect that , as soon as the Nile falls , they will make a temporary bridge across the Atbara . ''