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"Then had we not better fly, Baas? I have found a passage that leads to the mountains." "How can we fly and leave the Shepherdess, Otter? Since I have been held down the hole, only two men have visited me from time to time, for they think me helpless. Let us seize these men when they come in and take their knives, for we are unarmed. Then we can think; also we shall have their keys."

And if the court finds Uncle Silas guilty, who will do the shooting, Baas?" "I have not thought of that; the time has not come to think of it. It does not matter; anybody can carry out the sentence of the law." "Baas," said the Kafir, "I have done much for you, and had little pay. I have done ugly things. I had read omens and made medicines and 'smelt out' your enemies. Will you grant me a favour?

"Now we are safe for a time," he said, "and I will dress myself. Let the Baas forgive me for appearing thus before him I, who am so ugly." "Tell us the tale, Otter." "It is short, Baas," the dwarf replied, as he put on his robe and turban. "When I left you I watched, I who can see in the dark, and in a little while I saw the guard come down the steps and sit by the edge of the water.

"Why?" asked Willem, in surprise. "You kill um with you roer, and then they want from you. They want it, and sure take it." "Take what the elephant?" "No, baas Willem, the roer," answered the Kaffir. Though not afraid of having his gun taken from him, Groot Willem and his companions were unwilling to have any difficulty with the blacks; and the invitation of the chief was courteously declined.

Well, not so very far from my home, although none would guess it unless he knew the way, is another pass called Oliver's Hook, and by that pass, after I have spoken with my father and my mother if they still live, I would cross the Quathlamba, finding the Baas again on the further side of the mountains, as I can easily do."

After this eight of them set the poles upon their shoulders, and they all went away at a trot, heading for the bush-veld, driving with them a herd of goats which they had stolen from the farm, and making Janee run by the chair. I saw everything, Baas, for they passed just beneath my tree. Then I came to seek you, following the outward spoor of the waggons which I could not have done well at night.

Presently the point of the staff ceased to press upon the rock. "Is the place here, Baas?" said Otter. "It is here, but you must throw the stick up like a spear through the hole, for I am tied, and cannot put out my hand to take it." "Stay awhile, Baas; first I must make the line fast to it." "Good, but be swift, for I am in danger."

This path was hedged in by a thick thorny scrub, which being impenetrable rendered it unnecessary for some time to avail themselves of the instincts of the hound. Congo led the way. "Are you sure that the two horses have passed along here?" asked Willem, addressing himself to the Kaffir. "Yaas, Baas Willem," answered Congo. "Sure dey both go here."

"After that all sorts of things came about, Baas, and I felt as though the whole house were travelling through the air, Baas, twice as fast as a bullet does from a rifle. Suddenly, too, the room became filled with fire so hot that it scorched me, and so bright that it made my eyes water, although they can look at the sun without winking.

The explanation that the place was such a convenient distance from town, that if nothing was charged the Baas would have nothing left for his own flocks and herds, was badly received, as was also the reminder that if it was too hot for the oxen to eat much, they would drink all the same.