Such clothes as he possessed were in rags; his face was pinched with starvation, and moreover he was quite unconscious.

When his bearers, accompanied by the two Englishmen, reached the cluster of huts, he was carried to a small room at the end of the officers' bungalow and placed upon the bed.

After a little brandy had been administered, he recovered consciousness and looked about him.

Heaving a sigh of relief, he inquired where he might be.
"You are at Nampoung," said Gregory, "and you ought to thank your stars that you are not in Kingdom Come.

If ever a man was near it, you have been.