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My old coloured groom "Mooiroos," who followed behind leading my horse, evidently thought the same, for he remarked naïvely: "Baas, the English will soon fix us in another corner; had we not better throw the cart away?" We drove into Ermelo that afternoon. The dread east wind was blowing hard and raising great clouds of dust around us.
During the whole cold night I slept but little, and I fervently wished for the day to come, and felt exceedingly thankful when the sun arose and it got a little warmer. Proceeding, we crossed the ridges east of Bethel, and as this village came in sight my groom Mooiroos exclaimed: "There are a lot of Khakis there, Baas."
All respectable people have long since surrendered, and it is only such people as you who continue the War, while you personally are one of the ringleaders of these rebels." "Tut, tut," I said, "where is your husband?" "My husband is where all respectable people ought to be; with the English, of course." "'Hands-uppers, is that it?" answered my men in chorus, even Mooiroos the native joining in.
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