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And as the gendarme paused a few paces from him and remarkable fact seemed to be on the point of bringing his hand to his cap in salute, the mysterious tramp rapped out: "I thought I said no one was to disturb me, sergeant?" The sergeant took a pace forward. "I beg your pardon, Inspector, but I have important news for you."
Still I posted myself at fifteen paces from the sheik, without evincing the slightest emotion. The Marabout immediately seized one of the pistols, and, on my giving the signal, took a deliberate aim at me. The pistol went off, and the ball appeared between my teeth. More angry than ever, my rival tried to seize the other pistol, but I succeeded in reaching it before him.
Subsequently Colonel Price modified his tone towards me and allowed me parole. He was also gracious enough to permit me and some companions to occupy a little house 400 paces from the camp. This was a very agreeable change, for now we were no longer subjected to the harsh treatment of the "Tommies."
When they turned their horses' heads, Swart Piet and his men were not much more than a hundred paces from them, but in the wood they gained much ground, for he did not think that they would dare to leave it, and hunted for them there while they were racing over the open plain more than a mile away. At last he caught sight of them crossing a distant ridge, and the long chase began.
Also those who were left were as good as all, for now they knew that they should not be overcome easily while Axe and Club still led the way. Now they stood before a hill, measuring, perhaps, three thousand paces round its base.
In accordance with her notion of strict etiquette, that good woman put out her hand to him in greeting; and when the formality was over, the way being narrow and the crowd dense, I fell behind with her at my side, Miss Ross having been taken possession of by the cool Frenchman. For some paces Mrs. Camp, contrary to her custom, was quite silent.
But they had hardly done so, when the two English guns, which had been placed to the west of the town, opened fire on them. When this happened, I gave orders to my men that a great schanze of the English, about eighty paces from the one which we had just taken, should be stormed. This was successfully carried out by Veldtcornet Wessels, who had with him about twenty-five men.
But after running for, perhaps, a hundred paces, he shrugged his shoulders and resigned his cause to Allah.
Archer said nothing, but looked at Tom just as he had first looked at him a year ago, and tried to dope him out. For a few paces they walked in silence. "If you take a chance, I take a chance with you," Archer said. "If anybody should discover us and call for us to halt, I'm not going to halt," said Tom. "Believe me, I'll sprint," said Archer, "but that part's a cinch anyway "
Only two weeks, and then he would be transferred from this kindly old man's care to another's, whom he did not know and with whom he might not fare so well. "If ever you want me for anything if ye're sick or sumpin' like that," Chapin now returned to say, after he had walked a few paces away, "we have a signal here of our own. Just hang your towel out through these here bars.
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