12 A.M.—Have been asleep on a bench outside the hotel for the last two hours and a half, recovering from my recent exertions.
1 P.M.—Have fraternised with five English tourists armed with alpenstocks. One of our party has opened negotiations with the hotel-keeper as to the possibility of obtaining some lunch.
2 P.M.—Our ambassador has returned with his coat torn into tatters, and one of his eyes severely bruised.
3 P.M.—By a coup de main we have seized the salle-à-manger, and now are feasting merrily on bread and honey.
4 P.M.—Just driven from our vantage-ground by eight boots, ten waiters, the landlord and auxiliaries from the kitchen.
6 P.M.—Have spent the last two hours in consultation.
7 P.M.—A spy from our party (assuming the character of an English duke) is just leaving us for the front.
8 P.M.—Our spy has just returned, and reports that when he asked for a room the enemy attacked him with brooms and candlesticks.
9 P.M.—Have just matured our plan of attack.