“Ho! Ngcenika,” he cried, in a tone of exultation mingled with suppressed fury. “Thou art not dead y...
Still, one would hardly have suspected it. Eanswyth was perfectly calm and composed. There was a tir...
Through it came the shivering crash of glass, as Hlangani’s lantern fell into the pit, but whether i...
much.”“I quite agree with you,” said the other, who was something of a boxer. “To form the centre of...
wildly emitting a shrill and discordant melody, which common consent, amid roars of laughter, pronou...
“Where our hearts first met—there they meet again. Look up, my sweet one. I am here.”She does look u...
should be a bright and golden paradise! One life! A legion of fiends seemed to wrestle within the ma...
“What’s the row, George?” whispered Hoste below his breath. “Hear anything?”For answer Payne waved h...
Their escape had indeed been a narrow one. It was only late in the afternoon that Hoste had, by chan...
Chapter Ten.A Mutual Warning.It may not here be out of place to offer a word of explanation as to th...
going like the wind.“Whigge—woof!” The hard stick hurls through the air—aimed nearly as far ahead of...
“I hope you didn’t shoot their dogs,” said Eanswyth anxiously.“Didn’t I! one of ’em, that is. Do you...
even the latter won’t always open his Billingsgate upon you until he has fairly assimilated the gin ...
threateningly upon the speaker.“Nothing. I only made a remark to my comrade,” replied the man in his...
“Hlangani, the valiant—the fighting chief of the Ama Gcaléka—the herald of Sarili—is dead. Hau!” The...
that she was determined, with dismay.It was stark lunacy, they declared. She to go to live on an out...
cousin could not possibly be alive. The actual mode of his death might forever remain a mystery, but...
not actually so, which meant that the civil law still held sway and would certainly claim its vindic...
The keen, biting sarcasm told. The group, which mainly consisted of the low element, actually did be...
“No. But see here. If I’m attacked I’m not going to leave the choice of my means of defence to the e...
husband.The fact was that where her strongest, deepest feelings were concerned, Eanswyth, like most ...
cannot be talking seriously. He is joking.”“Hau!” burst forth the amapakati in mingled surprise and ...
He saw the gleam of assegai points, the deadly glare of hatred in the sea of rolling eyes closing in...
Mrs Hoste, with her two young daughters, were at the door as the party drove up. They received Eansw...
“Anything rather than that devil of a scramble again.”“The time to talk of getting out is not yet,” ...
announced the necessity of making a start that afternoon.“The time will soon pass,” he said. “It is ...