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"Baas, you are the fish, who come up softly, softly out of the water in the dark, and shoot the Motombo with the little rifle, and then the rest of us, who are the moth, fall into the canoe and float away. There is a storm about to break, Baas, and who will see you swim the stream in the storm and the night?" "The crocodiles," I suggested. "Baas, I didn't see a crocodile eat the fish.
"Your master wishes to thank you for your help in a dark hour, Footsack, and I wish to congratulate you all upon the swiftness of your feet," I said in Dutch. "Oh! Baas, the Basutos were many and their spears are sharp," he began apologetically. "Be silent, you running dog," I said, "and go help your master to dismount."
So it seems, Baas, that we have something to sell which the White Kendah must buy, namely our help against the Black Kendah, for if we will not fight for them, they believe that they cannot conquer their enemies and kill the devil Jana.
They told me nothing, and they were so cunning that, though I watched even their thoughts, I never guessed. They knew better than to tell me, for I would have beaten them yes, all! So they waited till I was sound asleep, then came behind me, the three of them, and tied me fast that I should not hinder them and that they might take away Baas Tom's gun which you lent me, and other things.
But there they were still alive, though in a sorry plight, and before evening they found themselves below the snow line in a warm and genial climate. "I must stop," said Juanna as the sun began to set; "I can drag myself no further." Leonard looked at Otter in despair. "There is a big tree yonder, Baas," said the dwarf with an attempt at cheerfulness, "and water by it.
"I save the Baas at Hetmeyer's Kopje. I kill Piet Graaf to do it." There was a look of assurance in the eyes of the mongrel, which sent a wave of coldness through Stafford's veins and gave him fresh anxiety. He was in despair.
Krool's wild, sullen, trembling look sought the window, but he had no heart for that enterprise thirty feet to the pavement below. "The sjambok, Baas," he said. Once again Byng moved forward on him, and once again Krool's cry rang out, but not so loud. It was like that of an animal in torture. In the next room, Wallstein and Stafford and the others heard it, and understood.
Hans surveyed me with a watery eye as though waiting for me to explain them, but I looked haughty and declined to oblige. "The Baas has reasons," continued Hans, "for taking us on what I think to be the wrong side of that great ridge, there to hunt for the spoor of the men-eaters, and they are so deep down in his mind that he cannot dig them up for poor old Hans to look at.
I asked viciously, for that was just what he looked like; even the skin under his jaw moved like a toad's. "The Baas is in trouble?" remarked Hans. "I should think he was," I answered, "and so will you be presently when you are wriggling on the point of a Mazitu spear."
But there it was, won at last, and there away to the eastward shone the wide glitter of the sea, flecked with faint lines of broken billows whence the sun rose in glory. "See, Baas," said Otter, when they had satisfied themselves with the beautiful sight, "yonder, some five hours' march from here, the mountains curve down to the edge of the river.
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