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Updated: June 18, 2025
Then Leonard took a knife and chipped off three fragments from the ball, taking one himself and presenting the other two to Francisco and Otter. The priest received it doubtfully, but the dwarf would have none of it. "Keep it for yourself, Baas," he said, "keep it for yourself. Whatever way I die it shall not be thus.
Look, Baas, I draw a circle in the sand with my foot, and I say some words so, and at last the ends touch. There, that is the circle of Oom Jacob and his wife the Englishwoman. The ends have touched and they are dead. An old witch-doctor taught me how to draw the circle of a man's life and what words to say. And now I draw another of Baas Frank. Ah! there is a stone sticking up in the way.
Ah! it makes me young again to think of it, when the roof burned; when the door was broken down; when we met the Quabies on the spears; when you held the pistol to the head of the Holy One whose name must not be mentioned, the Great One who knew how to die. Oh! Baas, our lives are twisted up together like the creeper and the tree, and where you go, there I must go also. Do not turn me away.
Only she must keep out of the way at the last. She could not bear to be near then. "Well," she said, "I will go with you, Jantje." "Good, missie, that is all right now. You can keep off the ghost of the dead Englishwoman while I kill Baas Frank. But first he must be fast asleep. Fast, fast asleep." Then slowly and with the uttermost caution once more they crept down the hill.
"I think not," I answered, "for if so there would have been more than one shot. Either it was an accident or they were murdering a slave." After this nothing more happened for a long while, till at length Hans seemed to rise out of the ground in front of me, and behind him I saw the figures of the Mazitu and the other man. "Tell your story," I said. "Baas, it is this.
"What he meant by that I am sure I don't know, Baas, seeing that I have never thought much of women, at least not for many years since my last old vrouw went and drank herself to death after lying in her sleep on the baby which I loved much better than I did her, Baas. "Well, before I could ask him, or about hell either, he was gone like a whiff of smoke from a rifle mouth in a strong wind."
"Be so good, Hans, as to go to Umslopogaas and to tell him that Macumazahn, or the Great Medicine, proposes to march at once to attack the camp of the Amahagger, and here is some tobacco." "Yes, Baas," answered Hans humbly, as he snatched the tobacco and wriggled away like a worm. Then I went to talk with Robertson.
After this we sat silent for a long while, till at length Hans said in his unmoved tone: "The light has come, Baas. Shall I blow out the candle, which it is a pity to waste? Also, does the Baas wish me to cook the breakfast, now that the snake devil is making his off Bena, as I hope to make mine off him before all is done.
She emerged from it all the same woman who had flung her married life, her man, and her old world to the winds on the day that Krool had been driven into the street. Like Krool, she too had gone out into the unknown into a strange land where "the Baas" had no habitation.
"Baas, I was kept for several days, I cannot remember how many, and only allowed out within the fence round the huts. Nombe came to see me once, bringing this," and she produced a package sewn up in a skin.
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