about 11 p.m.
` Let us by all means try , ' said Wilson , grimly ; and the two armies closed round the third . * * * * * `` I simply can not describe what followed . I am sorry , but there is such a thing as physical fatigue , as physical nausea , and , I may add , as physical terror . Suffice it to say that the above paragraph was written about 11 p.m. , and that it is now about 2 a.m. , and that the battle is not finished , and is not likely to be . Suffice it further to say that down the steep streets which lead from the Waterworks Tower to the Notting Hill High Road , blood has been running , and is running , in great red serpents , that curl out into the main thoroughfare and shine in the moon . * * * * * '' _ Later . _ -- The final touch has been given to all this terrible futility .