4 TIIK NIGHT OX THE DF.LBKC. cn A r. IJaglan was not awakened.* It was said lliat the __*; false alarm which brought about all this firing arose in the Turkisli lines. When morning dawned upon the invaders there was no sign that the enemy M'as hovering upon their left ikmk ; and although, as was afterwards known, tlio army of the Allies and the Ilussian field army M-ere drinking that morning of the same stream, there was between them a distance not hitlierto pierced by the reports of scouts or deserters, and great enough to prevent tlicir being seen the one by the other. viniienorof Duriug the liours of this bivouac on the lielbec the clioleia. ,111 1 t j 1 • i. the cholera raged. Jn the morning, great num- bers of the soldiers thus torn from the strength of the English regiments were laid in ranks par- allel with the road. The sufferers all lay strangely silent.
- Lord ]!aj,'lan told me some days aflerwards, t'nat ho owed
his undisturbed nijjht's rest on the Eelbec to the coolness and tenacity of Ids German servant. The man was somehow cm- vinoed that the sounds of battle did not import a real engage- ment, and would not allow his master to be awakened.
