He brought news of a division coming to our rescue.

Was that the reason of the day's failure?
So speculation chattered.

The one thing certain was that the performance did not come off, and there was no one to give us our money back.
[Illustration: IMPERIAL LIGHT HORSE SHELTERS] So we spent the day wandering round the outposts, washing ourselves and our rags in the yellow river, trying to get the horses to drink the water afterwards, contemplating the picturesque, and pretending to cook.
Perhaps the greatest interest was the work upon a series of caves in the river-bank, behind the Intelligence Office.

They are square-topped, with straight sides, cut clean into the hard, sandy cliff.

The Light Horse have made them for themselves and their ammunition.