one o'clock in the
morning
This , too , when only a few hours ago there had been that battle of S -- won by them after a struggle of many days ; that position , soaked with Russian blood , to be surrendered now as a leaf blows in the wind . When they arrived at T -- and found our Otriad he was , I believe , so deeply exhausted that he was not conscious of his actions . His account to me of what then occurred is fantastic and confused . He discovered apparently the house where we were ; it was then one o'clock in the morning . Every one was asleep . There seemed to be no place for him to be , he could find neither candles nor matches , and he wandered out into the road again . Then , it seems , he was standing beside a deep lake .