Shall have something to eat now, for I am half starved.
Glory is an excellent thing, but you cannot live upon it.
October 6, 11 A.M .-- Let me try to set down as calmly and as accurately as I can all that occurred last night.

I have never been a dreamer or a visionary, so I can rely upon my own senses, though I am bound to say that if any other fellow had told me the same thing I should have doubted him.

I might even have suspected that I was deceived at the time had I not heard the bell since.

However, I must narrate what happened.
Elliott was in my tent with me having a quiet cheroot until about ten o'clock.

I then walked the rounds with my jemidar, and having seen that all was right I turned in a little before eleven.
I was just dropping off to sleep, for I was dog-tired after the day's work, when I was aroused by some slight noise, and, looking round, I saw a man dressed in Asiatic costume standing at the entrance of my tent.