“They are not,” was the confident reply. “There are too few beasts and too few niggers. I tell you t...
“Anything rather than that devil of a scramble again.”“The time to talk of getting out is not yet,” ...
No living thing could have stood under that window, much less climbed up to it, without leaving its ...
intervals, several circular clumps of bush. One of these conceals a spectator. The latter is seated ...
Chapter Forty Four.Inferno.For the first forty yards the roof of the cave was so low that they had t...
They stood for some moments watching the receding figure of the Kafir in silence. Eanswyth was the f...
Chapter Five.The War-Dance at Nteya’s Kraal.The sun has just touched the western horizon, bathing in...
Chapter Eighteen.The Tables Turned.Eager at the prospect of a brush, their appetites for which had b...
“To travel in a strong party like that in these times is not wise. What if these Gcalékas were to fa...
brought it full into the horseman’s view. The bleating of sheep, mellowed by distance, as the flocks...
approaching death.“He is dying!” cried several, bending over the victim. “Hau! A man like Vudana sho...
sound of that slow, crawling glide—to discern an indistinct and sinuous shadow moving in the subdued...
extremely comfortable possessions, and whom, by this time, any one could see with half an eye, was d...
“Yes; but it’s ridiculous all the same. As if we weren’t relations, too.”“And will be closer relatio...
from his eyes at last—from both their eyes. What a very paradise was opening out its golden glories ...
horsemen shot like an arrow from the bow, and having the advantage of a down-hill course they left t...
whole group would turn in eager scrutiny of the surrounding veldt. For strung out upon the hillsides...
“The white wizard!” she shrieked. “The white wizard!”“Ha! The white wizard! The white wizard!” echoe...
think. I am always imagining Tom coming to frightful grief in some form or other.”The other did not ...
cousin could not possibly be alive. The actual mode of his death might forever remain a mystery, but...
life swell in harmonious chorus, louder and louder, in that last hour of parting day. His golden bea...
to the speaker. But a glance was enough to reassure him. The chief advanced toward him, holding noth...
“You were not always a ‘loyal,’ Xalasa?”“Whau!” cried the man, bringing his hand to his mouth, in ex...
should be a bright and golden paradise! One life! A legion of fiends seemed to wrestle within the ma...
Their escape had indeed been a narrow one. It was only late in the afternoon that Hoste had, by chan...
consisted almost entirely.“Wish I was you, Tom,” Hoste had said ruefully. “Wouldn’t I just like to b...