ten o'clock
He awoke , a new man . Furthermore , he was hungry . It was over a week since food had passed his lips . He drank a glass of condensed cream , thinned with water , and by ten o'clock he dared to take a cup of beef-tea . He was cheered , also , by the situation in the hospital . Despite the storm there had been but one death , and there was only one fresh case , while half a dozen boys crawled weakly away to the barracks . He wondered if it was the wind that was blowing the disease away and cleansing the pestilential land .