By 'Zakhmi Dil' (a pseudonym belonging to Major-General Richard Hilton) This story was originally published as an article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol.234, in December 1933. This story has not been available online until now. This, and other stories written by the same author, are available in our republished edition of Nine Lives, the Autobiography of an Old Soldier, available on wylfings.com THIS is a tale of many years ago—so many that the telling seems permissible. My companions ...