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"Thou art a hardy rebel to the truth," said another dark-brow'd man; "and didst thou not so act, that, by conveying away the aged woman, Margaret Bellenden, and her grand-daughter, thou mightest thwart the wise and godly project of John Balfour of Burley for bringing forth to battle Basil Olifant, who had agreed to take the field if he were insured possession of these women's worldly endowments?"
Sixty miles away to the north-east, but clearly visible in the rarefied mountain air, towered the mighty gates through which the Olifant River roared down to meet the Letaba. On their left the great ranges rolled away to the infinite north-west. What direction first to explore in? That was a difficult question to decide, seeing that the field for adventure was equally enticing in every direction.
"Thou 'rt a cowardly fool, Dick," returned Inglis; "he is living quietly down at Fairy Knowe to avoid suspicion. Olifant is a magistrate, and will have some of his own people that he can trust along with him. There are us two, and the laird says he can get a desperate fighting Whig fellow, called Quintin Mackell, that has an old grudge at Evandale."
I pray you to understand I have my people under arms to take and intercept all fugitives, and have already several prisoners, and so forth. Subscribed Basil Olifant You know the fellow by name, I suppose?" "A relative of Lady Margaret Bellenden," replied Morton, "is he not?"
"Mein baas! mein baas! da klow! spoor ob da groot olifant!" There was no danger of mistaking the spoor of the elephant for that of any other creature. There, sure enough, were the great round tracks full twenty-four inches in length, and nearly as wide deeply imprinted in the mud by the enormous weight of the animal's body. Each formed an immense hole, large enough to have set a gate-post in.
This, then, was one of the sleeping-trees of these animals. But of what use to them, farther than to gratify a little curiosity? The elephant was not there. "Da ole karl come again," said Swartboy. "Ha! you think so, Swart?" inquired Von Bloom. "Ya, baas, lookee da! spoor fresh da groot olifant hab slap here yesterday." "What then? you think we should lie in wait, and shoot him when he returns."
But this Basil Olifant is a Nabal, a Demas, a base churl whose wealth and power are at the disposal of him who can threaten to deprive him of them.
He next tried the Blood River, and passing down the valley crossed the Olifant on April 22, almost within sight of Beatson, who was watching the drifts. A few days later he crossed the railway and joined Botha at Ermelo. Early in May the active operations north of the Delagoa Bay Railway ceased. As in French's campaign, so also in Blood's, the results were chiefly negative.
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