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But, as Benita pointed out, although they might let him down, it was possible that they would not be able to draw him up again, in which case his plight must prove unfortunate. So, when the seat had been prepared, an experiment was made with a stone weighing approximately as much as a man.
How they reached Bambatse Benita never could remember, but afterwards she was told that both she and her father were carried upon litters made of ox-hide shields. When she came to her own mind again, it was to find herself lying in her tent outside the mouth of the cave within the third enclosure of the temple-fortress.
"Come on," he said; "don't let's be beat," for by this time the hunter was alive in him. So off they went at a gallop, up slopes and down slopes that reminded Benita of the Bay of Biscay in a storm, across half-dried vleis that in the wet season were ponds, through stony ground and patches of ant-bear holes in which they nearly came to grief.
I'll leave my coat to cover her." A sailor obeyed, and with difficulty Robert wrenched free his hand. Very deliberately he pressed Benita to his breast and kissed her on the forehead, then let her gently slide on to the bottom of the boat. Next he slipped off his overcoat and slowly rolled himself over the gunwale into the sea. "Now," he said, "pull Mrs. Jeffreys in."
The tall reeds dripped their dew upon her until she was soaked; long, black-tailed finches saccaboolas the natives call them flew up undisturbed, and lobbed away across the river; owls flitted past and bitterns boomed at the coming of the dawn. Great fish splashed also in the shallows, or were they crocodiles? Benita hoped not for one day she had seen enough of crocodiles.
"I suppose that I must accept my answer, but when you talked of any living man just now, Miss Clifford, did you include your father?" She shook her head. "Then will you allow him to try to mesmerize you?" Benita laughed. "Oh, yes, if he likes," she said. "But I do not think that the operation will be very successful." "Good, we will see to-morrow. Now, like you, I am tired.
At the moment, however, they appeared to be otherwise occupied, for they were pointing with their spears to the pillar on Bambatse. Then it occurred to Benita that, placed as she was in that fierce light with only the sky for background, she must be perfectly visible from the plain below, and that it might be her figure perched like an eagle between heaven and earth which excited their interest.
Then, with a rattle, down came the accommodation ladder, and strong-armed men, standing on its grating, dragged them one by one from the death to which they had been so near. The last to be lifted up, except Thompson, was Benita, round whom it was necessary to reeve a rope. "Any use?" asked the officer on the grating as he glanced at her quiet form. "Can't say; I hope so," answered Thompson.
For nothing more had been heard of Robert Seymour; indeed, already the tragedy of the ship Zanzibar was forgotten. The dead had buried their dead, and since then worse disasters had happened in the world. But Benita could not bury her dead. She rode about the veld, she sat by the lake and watched the wild fowl, or at night heard them flighting over her in flocks.
It remained upon the point of rock, and my forefather took it thence. It is a gift to the lady if she will promise to wear it." "Accept it," muttered Mr. Clifford, when he had finished translating this, "or you will give offence." So Benita said: "I thank the Molimo, and accept his gift." Then Tamas rose, and, advancing, cast the ancient, tragic thing over her head.
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