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Now it shrinks quite small, and lies only over your likeness, Sihamba, which shows through it red yes, and all the water round it is red, and now there is nothing left;" and Jan rose pale with fright, and wiped his brow with a coloured pocket-handkerchief, muttering "Allemachter! this is magic indeed."
"Allemachter!" he said, jerking his pony round. "It's you, Missie Jess, is it? Now who would have thought of seeing you here?" "Who would have thought of seeing you here?" she answered. "Yes, yes; it seems strange; I dare say that it seems strange. But I am a messenger of peace, like Uncle Noah's dove in the ark, you know.
I stood behind Jan and Ralph, who fought side by side, and, assisted by a girl of fourteen years of age, loaded their spare guns. Now there was a great silence in the camp, and suddenly in the silence, Jan, who was looking through his loophole, whispered: "Allemachter! here they come."
"Allemachter!" groaned Coetzee, "what did I tell you? The poor rooibaatjes shot down like buck, and the land running with blood! And now that Frank Muller will draw me into it, and I shall have to go and shoot the poor rooibaatjes; and I can't miss, try as hard as I will, I can't miss.
Suddenly the silence was broken by a frightful and prolonged wail that seemed to shape itself into the word "Frank," and to proceed from the air just above the struggling Bessie's head. The effect produced upon Muller was something wonderful. "Allemachter!" he cried, looking up, "it is my mother's voice!"
The jolly-looking Boer rolled awkwardly off his pony before answering, and, throwing the reins over its head, came to meet them. "Allemachter, Oom Silas, it is bad news. You have heard of the bymakaar at Paarde Kraal. Frank Muller wanted me to go, but I would not, and now they have declared war on the British Government and sent a proclamation to Lanyon.
Also, without doubt the missionaries mean well, but they believe that a black man has a bigger soul than a white man, whereas we who know the black man see that there is a difference." "Allemachter, son," said Jan, looking at him out of the corner of his eye, "cannot you show some spirit?
I caught sight of Van Vooren's back only, but although I had not seen him for years, I knew it at once. "We have found the tiger at home," I said, "yonder goes Swart Piet." "Allemachter! it is so," answered Jan. "Look, there lies the tiger's prey," and pointing to Sihamba he followed them up the mountain side as fast as his weight would allow, for in those days Jan was a very heavy man.
"In the name of Heaven," I cried at length as I blundered into both of them in the kitchen, "be off out of this. Why are you here?" "Allemachter!" said Jan, "because we have nowhere else to go.
He picked up his hat; there was a bullet-hole right through it. Then, full of wrath, he advanced to meet Frank Muller. "What the devil do you mean by firing at me?" he asked. "Allemachter, carle!"
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