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Well, up they rode to the stoep, the two Englishmen taking off their hats to me, after their foolish fashion, while the interpreter, who called me "Aunt," although I was younger than he was, asked for leave to off-saddle, according to our custom. I nodded my head, and having given the horses to the Cape boys, they came up onto the stoep and shook hands with me as I sat.
I was just preparing to off-saddle when the colonel said, "Crawford, if you aren't too tired, you can come with me. I am going just a little way up the mountain." "Very good, sir," I answered, climbing into the saddle again, but wishing that he had taken it into his head to sleep instead. "I should like to find out where Canterac is. He is quite clever enough to set a very ugly trap for us."
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