336 MAJOR W. HODSON. 



arms and carried liini towards a dooly which hap- 

 pened to be near at hand. 



"He went on to tell me," says Dr Anderson, 

 " that after he received the first shock of the wound 

 he sent for Colonel Napier, and at once started off 

 an orderly for me. Colonel Napier came at once 

 and sent for Dr Clifford, who came and dressed the 

 wound and left a doctor to watch until I arrived. 

 It took about an hour to tell me all this, and after- 

 wards he became drowsy, and continued half-waking 

 half-sleeping until dawn, when he asked for tea. It 

 was soon procured, and he drank two cups of it and 

 felt very much refreshed. I thought him very much 

 better then, and had hopes of his ultimate recovery 

 provided bleeding did not return." 



Unfortunately at 9 a.m. the bleeding returned, 

 accompanied by much pain and increasing faintness. 

 "He rapidly became worse, and at 10 a.m. I told 

 him that there was no hope for him. I sent then 

 for Colonel Napier, who came immediately, and I 

 left them together for a quarter of an hour. He 

 was able to talk, but only very feebly, as his 

 breathing was much affected, and the anodyne 

 remedies I administered had very little effect. Col- 

 onel Napier could remain merely a few minutes, 

 as the commander-in-chief sent for him." 



Before Napier returned to the side of his dying 

 friend the dooly in which Hodson lay had been 

 removed by Dr Anderson's orders into an empty 

 room where quiet and privacy could be ensured. 



Napier found him in much pain, and evidently 

 weaker than on the previous visit, when Hodson 

 had given him his last loving messages for his wife 



