I went across to him.

He was on a bed some little distance from any of the others, for it was the healthy season, and there were only three or four others in the tent.
"'I hear, Major Thorndyke,' he said in a low voice, 'that you killed that fellow who gave me this wound, and that you yourself were stabbed.' "'Mine is not a serious business, my man,' I said.

'I wish you had got off as easily.' "'I have been expecting it, sir,' he said; 'and how I came to be fool enough to go outside the tent by myself I cannot think.

I was uneasy, and could not sleep; I felt hot and feverish, and came out for a breath of fresh air.

I will tell you what caused it, sir.