But just then he was perceived by one, and instinctively Eustace brought his piece to bear. But he d...
We’ve got no show at all. Ugh-h!”Something cold had come in contact with his hand. He started violen...
life swell in harmonious chorus, louder and louder, in that last hour of parting day. His golden bea...
success, and every native from Natal to the Great Fish River would be up in arms. The news would fla...
ruined homesteads rose from the fair plains of British Kaffraria, and by night the lurid signals of ...
sides were broken up into a grand panorama of soaring krantzes and wild rocky gorges, which latter, ...
They had struck into a narrow gorge in the side of the hill. It was hard work making any headway at ...
sealed. They would have been hemmed in completely. Happily, however, when Eustace uttered his warnin...
consisted almost entirely.“Wish I was you, Tom,” Hoste had said ruefully. “Wouldn’t I just like to b...
when to the radiant enchantment of the Present should have succeeded the woe of a never-ending and r...
relief against the red flashes of lightning which played with well-nigh unintermittent incandescence...
as swerve, they poured such a deadly cross-fire upon the compact onrushing mass that in a second the...
half-concealed and contemptuous grin spread across the broad countenance of his retainer in no wise ...
“And Kreli?”“The Great Chief is in one of his red moods,” answered Josane, in a different tone to th...
attempts to draw him out during their journey had failed. As they drew near the dreaded spot this re...
during the few minutes required for inspanning. Now she reappeared. “I am ready, Eustace,” she said....
“They had every reason to suppose so. Now, what do you think stood between me and certain death?”“Wh...
precarious shelter.“Stay where you are—stay where you are,” cried Shelton in a tone of authority, as...
red firelight. Suddenly, upon the black gloom of the night, far away to the eastward, there gleamed ...
to join her. She was lucky in getting it, for by now every hole or shanty in the village is full up....
himself from ducking violently as the head of a huge puff-adder noiselessly shot up horribly close t...
Their escape had indeed been a narrow one. It was only late in the afternoon that Hoste had, by chan...
“You were not always a ‘loyal,’ Xalasa?”“Whau!” cried the man, bringing his hand to his mouth, in ex...
whose bullets they fell. Ask the jackal and the vulture, who have picked their bones. Ask Mfulini, t...
Chapter Forty Seven.Into Space.“Heavens! What a glorious thing is the light of day!” exclaimed Hoste...
He did not choose, for reasons of his own, to ask Josane direct how imminent the danger might be. To...