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Orpin feared that he understood the meaning of the last words too well, but, being aware that Hintza was regarded by the colonists as one of the friendliest of the Kafir chiefs, he hoped that he might be mistaken. Hintza was as good as his word, and set out next day with a band of warriors, giving the white man a good horse that he might ride beside him.
Orpin happened to arrive at the time with his waggon you know he has taken to going about as a trader, and he spoke a great deal to Ruyter about his soul, and about Jesus coming to save men from sin, and enabling them to forgive their enemies; but when Ruyter heard about forgiving his enemies he wouldn't listen any more. Pointing to his wounds, he said, `Do you think I can forgive Jan Smit?"
He himself was also mounted on a good steed, but felt that it would be madness to attempt to fly from them. On the second day they were joined whether by arrangement or not Orpin had no means of judging by a band of over a thousand warriors belonging to a different tribe from his escort.
While Conrad Marais was standing close to the hind-wheels of one of the waggons, watching for a good shot at a Kafir outside, who was dodging about for the double purpose of baulking Conrad's intention and thrusting an assagai into him, another active Kafir had clambered unobserved on the tilt of the waggon and was in the very act of leaning over to thrust his spear into the back of the Dutchman's neck when he was observed by Stephen Orpin, who chanced to be reloading his gun at the moment.
"Now, lads," cried Groot Willem, "a steady volley and a charge home will send them to the right about." "Better fire over their heads," said Orpin earnestly. "We are not at war with these men. Let us not kill if we can help it." "I agree with that heartily," cried Charlie Considine. "So do I," said Hans. "Depend on't the sound will suffice for men who perhaps never saw fire-arms before."
The savages made ineffectual attempts to conceal their delight at what they saw, and Orpin now felt that he was in the power of enemies who merely spared his life in the hope that he might afterwards be useful to them. The band which escorted him consisted of several hundred warriors, a few of whom were mounted on splendid horses stolen from the settlers.
Peter and Paul the Apostles, every man's door being shadowed with green birch, long fennel, St John's wort, orpin, white lilies, and such like, garnished upon with garlands of beautiful flowers, had also lamps of glass, with oil burning in them all the night; some hung out branches of iron curiously wrought, containing hundreds of lamps alight at once, which made a goodly show, namely, in New Fish Street, Thames Street, etc."
At another, within earshot of these, were Edwin Brook and his wife, his daughter Gertrude, Scholtz and his wife, Junkie, George Dally, and Stephen Orpin, with bluff Hans Marais, who had somehow got acquainted with the Brook family, and seemed to prefer their society to that of any other.
Reply to this was interrupted by the appearance, in the opening of the tent, of a man whose solemn but kindly face checked the flow of flippant conversation. "You look serious, Orpin; has anything gone wrong?" asked Frank Dobson. "Our friend is dying," replied the man, sadly. "He will soon meet his opponent in the land where all is light and where all disputes shall be ended in agreement."
"No doubt revenge is sweet to you, but it is sinful," returned Orpin. "Besides, the sweetness does not last long; and will it, let me ask, make the black man happier or the white man more sorrowful in the long-run? You should think of others, not only of yourself, Ruyter." "Does Jan Smit ever tink of oders of anybody but hisself?"
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