ten o’clock in the morning
`` See , here 's my photograph ; that will be better , '' said I , feeling a little annoyed -- foolishly , I admit . Then we strained each other to our respective hearts and parted . Now it so happened that my room in the _ lacanda _ in which I was lodging overlooked the market-place . Here at ten o'clock in the morning I posted myself ; for that was the hour , as I had been careful to ascertain , when the prisoners were to start for Foggia . I opened the window about three inches and fixed it there ; I took out my gun , put eight balls in it , and looked down upon the square . It was crowded with the country people in their bright-coloured costumes chaffering over their produce . I looked above them to the tall campanile of the church which filled one side of the square .