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As he left the rose there, his eyes wandered slowly over this retreat of rest and sleep: white robe-de-nuit, blue silk canopy, blue slippers, blue dressing-gown all blue, the colour in which he had first seen her. Slowly he turned away at last and went to his own room. But the picture followed him. It kept shining in his eyes. Krool's face suddenly darkened it. "You not ring, Baas," Krool said.
"Baas," said Hans, "I believe that these were the traitors who slipped away and told Rezu of our plans so that he attacked us on the ridge, instead of our attacking him on the plain as we had arranged so nicely. At least they were none of them in the battle and afterwards I heard the Amahagger talking of some of them."
Tell them, Swart that we don't believe them." The Bushman did as he was desired, but the Bechuanas only reiterated their previous statement. "What nonsense!" exclaimed Arend. "They take us for such fools as to suppose people can live without water! They have a supply somewhere. We must make a search for it and help ourselves." "No, baas Arend," interposed Swartboy. "Don't do this.
The others laughed idly and bethought themselves of their own glasses, and the croupier again set the ball spinning and drew their eyes. "Faites vos jeux!" the croupier called, monotonously, and the jingle of coins followed. "The Baas where the Baas?" came again the harsh voice from the doorway. "Gone went an hour ago," said De Lancy Scovel, coming forward. "What is it, Krool?" "The Baas "
Meanwhile Otter, advancing with obsequious steps, was pouring handful after handful of gold coin and ingots into the large scales which Pereira caused to be held before him. At length all the gold was in, a shining heap. "The balance does not turn," said Xavier; "I claim the girl." "Baas," said Otter in a low voice, and speaking in Dutch, "have you more gold? The weight is short."
The goats scattered along the paths nibbled languidly at the new spring grass, with "baas" at the woman who was tending them, and looked bored, as she followed the visitors with a lack-lustre eye. A mournfulness was over the place, like the terror of a contagion. Yet it had been a cheerful house, and one where even recently there had been high junketings.
The next moment my horse snorted and shied violently, and no wonder, for out of a great ant-bear hole not five paces away appeared a yellow face crowned with black wool, in which was set a broken feather. I looked at the face and the face looked at me. "Hans," I said, "is it you? I thought that you were killed with the others." "And I thought that you were killed with the others, baas.
"'I think it is a pity to wait so long, said the first Predikant, 'for never shall we sleep in peace until the red-hot pot is on his head. "'First the victory, then the feast, answered the second Predikant, 'though he will not be so good to eat as that fat young woman who was with the new queen. "Then, Baas, they both smacked their lips and one of them went back towards the hut.
Whatever happened your chances were worse than those of any one. You can't frighten me, or my friends in there, or the Baas, or Mrs. Byng. Look after your own skin. You are the vile scum of the earth," he determined to take a strong line now, since he had made a powerful impression on the creature before him "and you will do what the Baas likes, not what you like. He saved your life.
By degrees the hissing grew very faint, till at length they died away altogether. I waited another half-hour, Baas, and then I grew so curious that I thought that I would go to look in the cave. "I lit the little lantern I had with me and, holding it in one hand and my stick in the other, I crept into the hole. Before I had crawled ten paces I saw something white stretched along the ground.
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