Or all these things together may have tended to a concomitant effect.

At any rate the issue was that I could not sleep.
For hour after hour I lay thinking and in an irritated way listening for the chimes of the Ragnall stable-clock which once had adorned the tower of the church and struck the quarters with a damnable reiteration.

I concluded that Messrs.

Harut and Marut were a couple of common Arab rogues such as I had seen performing at the African ports.

Then a quarter struck and I concluded that the elephants' cemetery which I beheld in the smoke undoubtedly existed and that I meant to collar those thousands of pounds' worth of ivory before I died.