about two o'clock in the morning
At the same time , facts are facts , and a man knows best what his own feelings are . But there are other gifts besides bravery which are necessary for a soldier , and one of them is that he should be a light sleeper . Now , from my boyhood onwards , I have been hard to wake , and it was this which brought me to ruin upon that night . It may have been about two o'clock in the morning that I was suddenly conscious of a feeling of suffocation . I tried to call out , but there was something which prevented me from uttering a sound . I struggled to rise , but I could only flounder like a hamstrung horse . I was strapped at the ankles , strapped at the knees , and strapped again at the wrists .