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Presently the latter asked me kindly enough if I thought I should be sufficiently strong to trek back to the station that afternoon in an ox-cart with springs to it and lying at full length upon a hide-strung "cartel" or mattress. I answered, "Certainly," as I should have done had I been at the point of death, for I saw that he wished to be rid of me.
"I suppose that I can always come back." More than three weeks had gone by when one morning Benita, who slept upon the cartel or hide-strung bed in the waggon, having dressed herself as best she could in that confined place, thrust aside the curtain and seated herself upon the voorkisse, or driving-box.
On the broad stoep, which commanded a pleasant view over rolling, park-like country, where mimosa and other trees grew in clumps, two men were seated, drinking strong coffee, although it was not yet ten o'clock in the morning. Hearing the sound of the horses, one of these, Mynheer Marais, whom I already knew, rose from his hide-strung chair.
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