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Moreover, Eybel, who is a bright boy, and has a head upon his shoulders, wants a slim rogue of a fellow that talks Engelsch to worm himself in over yonder" he jerked his gnarled thumb in the direction of Gueldersdorp "and bring back a plan of the defences on the west, where the native stad lies.
"SIR, In reply to your communication I am instructed by General Brounckers to inform you that our prisoner, the Englishwoman who came here in the character of a German drummer's refugee-widow to act as your spy, will be exchanged for a free Boer of the Transvaal Republic, by name, Myjnheer W. Slabberts, who is at present confined under the Yellow Flag in Gueldersdorp gaol.
"You must understand that the blackguard had given my wife details of Mildare's death at a farm owned by a friend of his in Natal, and that Hannah that my wife knew poor little Lucy Hawting had had a child by Mildare," Major Bingo spluttered. "That was why she asked Van Busch outright whether the girl with the nuns at Gueldersdorp was could be the same child, grown up? By the Living Tinker!
He whom she had praised as honourable was a traitor no less than the dead man. He had said to her, months ago in the Cemetery at Gueldersdorp: "I may die, but I will never fail you!" He had not died, and he had failed her. The Dop Doctor of Gueldersdorp was drinking hard again.
Smoots Beste agreed that it was decidedly rum. The sergeant said, without a change in his agreeable smile: "All right; you can inspan six of our drove-bullocks, and drive the waggon with us to Gueldersdorp." "Thank you, Baas!" said Smoots, without enthusiasm. "If you like to take the risk," added the sergeant, who had not quite finished.
"If I had lain down and gone to my long home eighteen months ago, when you were cooped up in Gueldersdorp with my husband, it would have suited you both down to the ground!" She turns, with a stamp of her imperious little foot, upon the scared nurse, who is vainly endeavouring to still Baby. "Take her away! Carry her out of hearing! Do what you're told, you silly fool!" she orders.
As Christmas drew near, and Gueldersdorp, not yet sensible of the belly-pinch of famine, sought to relieve its tense muscles and weary brains by getting up an entertainment here and there, W. Keyse escorted his beloved by proxy, as usual to a Sunday smoking-concert, given in a cleared-out Army Service Stores shed, lent by Imperial Government to the promoters of the entertainment.
This pretended Secret Agent of the War-Intelligence-Bureau that never existed, and who called himself Van Busch a name that's as common among Boers as Murphy is among Irishmen arranged to pass off my wife as his sister, a refugee from Gueldersdorp, who'd married a German drummer, and buried him not long before.
I hired the trap and the trotter from a hotel-keeper at Gueldersdorp. And Mr. Van Busch tells me that they have recently been commandeered for the service of the United Forces of the Transvaal and Orange Free State." "So!... Well, that is what I would have done, if they were worth having. Where is Van Busch?"
Nothing was left now but his loyalty to the friend who believed in him. If that man had not stood between Saxham and his despair, Gueldersdorp would have got back her Dop Doctor that night. For the Hospital stores included a cherished case or two of Martell and Kinahan, and all these things were under Saxham's hand. The heavy footsteps crashed out of hearing.
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