He had taken it at ten in the morning and it was now two.

We were led to the house and found it a single small unlit room up a narrow alley.

In the room two men were unconcernedly eating their rice, and in the darkness they seemed to be the only occupants; but, lying down behind them on a narrow bed, was the dim figure of the dying man, who was breathing stertorously.

A crowd quickly gathered round the door and pent up the alley-way.

Rousing the man, I caused him to swallow some pints of warm water, and then I gave him a hypodermic injection of apomorphia.