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"You see, she is almost four now, and beautifully cared for, but, now that her little mind is beginning to unfold I Oh, to be able to afford a place of my own next year when she has outgrown Mrs. Dupree's. You see, I've never really had her. I've such plans for the day when I can have her rearing all to myself. I want life to unfold so naturally to her. Like a flower.
A body of men well posted at Dupree's Drift might split the army at the crossing, and under cover of the fire I might swim the river and join my friends. Still relying on the vow, it might be possible for well-mounted men to evade capture. Accordingly he called for volunteers, and sent off one of his Kaffirs to warn me of his design.
East of Main Drift, where the police were fewer, he succeeded; but he had not gone far till he was discovered by the Basuto scouts. The find was reported to Arcoll, who guessed at once who this traveller was. He dared not send out any of his white men, but he bade a party of the scouts follow the Portugoose's trail. They shadowed him to Dupree's Drift, where he crossed the Letaba.
I asked the Kaffir how far it was to Dupree's Drift, and was told three hours' march. We should get there after the darkening. It seemed he had permission to ride with me instead of 'Mwanga, who had no love for the job. How he managed this I do not know; but Arcoll's men had their own ways of doing things. He undertook to set me free when the first shot was fired at the ford.
Reggie sprang to his feet, and greeted her with his inevitable effusiveness. When he asked, "Do you know her, too?" "Who? Lucy?" asked Alice. "I went to school with her." "Judge Dupree's plantation was next to ours," said Montague. "We all grew up together." "There was hardly a day that I did not see her until she was married," said Alice.
There was no one else likely to send a message. 'Ratitswan says, he went on, "'Look out for Dupree's Drift." I will be near you and cut your bonds; then you must swim across when Ratitswan begins to shoot. The news took all the weight of care from my mind. Colin had got home, and my friends were out for rescue.
Now obviously the thing that scared them must be on this side of the Letaba. This must mean that Laputa's army, or a large part of it, had not crossed at Dupree's Drift, but had gone up the stream to some higher ford. If that was so, I must alter my course; so I bore away to the right for a mile or two, making a line due north-west.
Taylor, has just come up from New Orleans. She used to be Lucy Dupree." The Colonel strove to recall. "Dupree?" he said. "Judge Dupree's daughter," said Montague. "His brother, John Dupree, was the first president of the road." "Oh, yes," said the Colonel. "Of course, of course! I remember the Judge now. Your father told me he had taken quite a lot of the stock."
"He certainly looks as if he ought to be able to protect himself," said the girl. "His face is so grim and forbidding. You would hardly think he could smile, to look at him." "He is very pleasant, when you know him," said Montague. "He remembered you, and asked about you," said she. "Wasn't it he who was going to buy Lucy Dupree's stock?"
I had seen Laputa as the Christian minister, as the priest and king in the cave, as the leader of an army at Dupree's Drift, and at the kraal we had left as the savage with all self-control flung to the winds. I was to see this amazing man in a further part. For he now became a friendly and rational companion.
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