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Updated: June 18, 2025
Suppose one of the lot should try and come out while we were off our guard. I'll make him surrender quicker than he can say 'Jack Robinson'!" Presently there sounded upon the morning air the clear "cooee" of the range, particularly well known to every cowboy who had worked at Circle Ranch. Frank and Bob listened eagerly to learn whether there would come any response.
She is well read, very keenly alive, and has travelled a great deal. She and I have much in common, and, I must say, as I help her across the paddy fields I forget all about you two. It is not until we turn to go home that I miss you. "They can't be far," I say reassuringly, and give a loud cooee, but there is no response. "They can't possibly come to harm here," I say.
The short silence was broken only by Kruger Bobs, scraping his spoon along his fast-emptying plate. Then Alice spoke again. "You hear often from Cooee, Mr. Weldon?" "Now and then. Not often." "Did you know that she may come to us, after Christmas?" "No," he said alertly. "To Johannesburg?" She nodded. "We need her, and my aunt has almost given her consent.
Turning slightly, he stared up at her with the impassive curiosity of a man just coming back from The Unknown. Then he shook his head. "I am afraid " he began slowly. With a quick gesture, she took off her crisp white cap, uncovering a heavy pile of ink-black hair. "There!" she said, with a smile. "Does that make me look more natural, Mr. Weldon? I am Alice Mellen, Cooee Dent's cousin."
Up through the ferns came the thin note of Miss Bibby's cooee. "Coo-ee-ee," shouted Pauline instantly in return. Then looked a little troubled, for cooee was to be interpreted that all was well. "At all events it's not our fault," she said resignedly. A stout figure of vengeance was indeed coming along the path in the shape of Uncle Hugh.
She is absolutely independent, and generally arranges things according to her own sweet will." "Where is she now?" "In Cape Town," Alice answered, quite unaware of her own lack of truth. "And well?" "Gloriously. In fact, as far as I can learn, Cooee always is well. Just now she is having a wonderfully gay time.
Please explain your name." She looked up at him with sudden literalness. "It is for my grandmother. For four hundred years there has been an Ethel Dent in every generation." "I meant the other." "Oh, Cooee?" She laughed. "It dates from our first coming out here, when we were children. My old Kaffir nurse I was only five, that first trip used to call me so, and every one took it up.
At sunset, just as I was taking the saddle from my horse, I heard a cooee, and not considering it prudent to encamp in the vicinity of the natives, I began to tighten up the girths again; but, at the same time, answered the cooee, and soon after I saw Master Charley and his wearied horse descending from the opposite range.
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