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Updated: May 2, 2025
But own in your secret heart you're as much afraid as I am that a Relieving Column will be sent down from Do tell me again where Grumer is with the Brigade? Uli, in Upper Rhodesia thanks! Well, Grumer is quite a near friend of Bingo's, and an old flame of mine.
Grumer, with his Brigade, was guarding the Drifts, and when the Relief might be expected was now a moss-grown topic of general conversation in Gueldersdorp. And within her girdle of trenches, stern, grimy, haggard men lived, cheek to the heated rifle-breech, and ate, and snatched brief spells of sleep, booted and bandoliered, and with the loaded weapon ready for gripping.
Mounted men rode out in force, guns were limbered up and galloped out north and west, to divert General Huysmans' attention, and give Grumer, conjectured to be waiting for it, the opportunity for an eagle-like swoop down upon the harassed tortoise sprawling on her sand-hills.
But to burst our lovely peacock bubble of Siege and let the whole situation down, sans coup férir, into muddy commonplace may Grumer never come!" She held up her coffee-cup, and drank the toast. "Only for the women and children here," he said, and his thin nostrils moved to the measure of his quickened breathing, and a hot spark glowed in his keen eyes, "I'd have joined you in that.
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