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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Bravo! bravo, Val!" he shouted to me, pulling his horse up so suddenly that it nearly went back on its haunches. "Here, you, Joeboy, keep the teams going. Fall in, my lads! Dismount!" The troop sprang from their saddles, swung round their rifles, and waited. In obedience to Denham's next order I followed the last wagon, rifle in hand.
"But what about the sentry?" I said suspiciously. "Um? Fast asleep," said Joeboy. "What! all the time you were loading yourself with these bags?" "Um!" "You did not send him to sleep, did you?" I said suspiciously. "Um? Killum?" "Yes." "No," said Joeboy coolly. "Didn't wake up. Lot more couldn't carry. Plenty to eat now."
Turning to Joeboy, who had twice looked through the glass, I asked: "Do you think we could find those wagons in the dark?" "Um? Joeboy could," he replied promptly. "Go right straight." I breathed more freely then, and suggested to Denham that I should go and report to the Colonel what I had seen. "Yes; at once," he said.
"Joeboy know," said the black, with his eyes still fixed on the glass. "You know?" I cried, staring at the black's calm, imperturbable countenance. "Um? Yes." "Why, what could be done?" I said, excited by the black's cool and confident way, knowing as I did from old experience how full of ingenuity the brave fellow was. "Um?" he said thoughtfully, as he still watched the Boer lines.
Aunt Jenny's dear love to you, and she is going to help me to hold Bob in, for the young dog is mad to come after you. "Your father, in the dear old home he is about to quit, perhaps for ever. "John Moray. "PS: Good news, my boy. Joeboy has just come back, in full fighting fig. He will bring this, and some provision for a day or two. I feel sure you may trust him.
"But I say, how that nigger of yours scuffles along! He's leaving us quite behind." "He is sure-footed and accustomed to the rocks," I said as I watched Joeboy, who was getting higher and higher up the precipice to our left, as well as higher up the pass. "He wants to get up to where he can look over the Boers' position." "He had better mind," said Denham.
"Um!" he said, and he looked at me inquiringly, as if for orders. "Now we must be off, Joeboy, before the Boers hunt me out."
We went along cheerily, for every yard carried us farther from risk of capture by the Boers; and once we were well clear of the pass a couple of days would, I felt sure, place us safely in the land of my countrymen with whom the Boers were at war. "How soon shall we stop and have breakfast, Joeboy?"
I will, however, write this in the hope that I can send it, as I do not want to leave your aunt and Bob, for there is much to do, burying and hiding a few valuables in case we are ever able to come back." "Oh!" I exclaimed, and Joeboy half-sprang to his feet, but subsided as I went on: "War has broken out, the Boers having defied the British Government.
"Yes, a good meal does make a difference," I said, smiling with pleasant recollections of my own breakfast. "Difference! Oh, it was splendid! I felt as if I could have voted for you to be made colonel on the spot, and black Joeboy adjutant, when I caught sight of you coming with six wagons and teams instead of one.
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