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They drank off their beer, and sat smoking and talking of other things, until Ferdinand remarked casually: "By the way about your friend are his parents still alive?" Klaus was by no means anxious to go into Peer's family affairs, and answered briefly No, he thought not. "I'm afraid I'm boring you with questions, but the fact is the fellow interests me rather.
For three days did I doctor that man, and really I believe that if at any time during those days I had relaxed my attentions even for a couple of hours, he would have slipped through my fingers, for at this business Klaus and the Kaffirs were no good at all. But I pulled him round, and on the third morning he came to his senses.
He had not yet succeeded in making a beginning, and already he had been caught behaving like a blockhead. "Well, well, well," said Klaus, in a good-humored tone, "you are no bigger fool than all the rest. But if you'll take my advice, you'll go to shoemaker Jeppe Kofod as apprentice; I am going straight to his place to fetch manure, and I know he's looking for an apprentice.
And when he lectured her, and warned her to be careful and take no notice of men who tried to speak to her, Louise only laughed. When Klaus Brock came up one day to visit them, and made great play with his eyes while he talked to her, Peer felt much inclined to take him by the scruff of the neck and throw him downstairs.
Körg, bewildered, could not yet yield simple faith. He clutched desperately his bread and pudding. He found no joyful words. The little man frowned scathingly on the gift of Klaus, then burst into a scornful laugh. "It is always thus, friend, with the money elves; they deal niggardly, even at the full. But, care not, since this meagre chip will prove to you a barter for millions. Follow me!
We needn't live in each other's pockets, of course, when other people are by but we must take in Klaus Brock along with us, don't you think?" Peer felt a strong impulse to run away. Did the other know everything? If so, why didn't he speak straight out?
Whereupon the clerks of the post-direction became suddenly immersed in the duties of their office. We took the hint and good-naturedly retired. It certainly looked like business when outside we perceived Klaus dragging forth with all his might and main, from a dark and dusty coach-house, a still dustier old coach.
Close by stood a large haystack, and between it and the house a little out-house, covered with a flat thatched roof. 'I can lie down there, thought Little Klaus, looking at the roof; 'it will make a splendid bed, if only the stork won't fly down and bite my legs. For a live stork was standing on the roof, where it had its nest.
"Well, wine and women, we'll say and fun in general. One thing he isn't, by Jove! and that's YOUNG." "Perhaps he's not been able to afford that sort of thing," said Ferdinand, with something like a sigh. The two sat on for some time, and every now and then, when Klaus was off his guard, Ferdinand would slip in another little question about Peer.
They met no man, black or white, and supported themselves upon game, which they shot and ate raw or sun-dried, till at length all their powder was done and they threw away their heavy roers, which they could no longer carry. It was at this juncture that from the top of a tall tree Klaus saw a certain koppie a long way off, which he recognised as being within fifteen miles or so of Marais's camp.
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