THE ANGELS OF MONS
"The night was not very dark, and I fancied that I could see squadron upon squadron of these cavalrymen quite distinctly.
"I did not say a word about it at first, but I watched them for about twenty minutes. The other two officers had stopped talking.
"At last one of them asked me if I saw anything in the fields. I then told him what I had seen. The third officer then confessed that he too had been watching these horsemen for the past twenty minutes.
"So convinced were we that they were really cavalry that, at the next halt, one of the officers took a party of men out to reconnoitre, and found no one there. The night then grew darker, and we saw no more.
"The same phenomenon was seen by many men in our column. Of course, we
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