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Updated: May 11, 2025
You have escaped. Be thankful, and leave the poor brutes alone." Obeying the orders of his conscience, he re-shouldered his gun and returned to his friend, whom he found reclining under a low bush, and informed him of what he had seen. The young Dutchman jumped up at once, and, mounting, rode round a spur of the hill and out upon the plain.
"I say, let's come on to the house," he said at last. "Yes, let's come on to the house," repeated Alan. And he rose at once, re-shouldered the portmanteau, and, taking the candle in his other hand, moved forward to the Lodge. This was a long, low building, smothered in creepers; and now, except for some chinks of light between the dining-room shutters, it was plunged in darkness and silence.
Scholtz re-shouldered his axe, and went off to the jungle with a broad grin on his broader countenance. He was a man who did not spare himself, yet of a temperament that kicked at useless labour, and of a size that forbade the idea of compulsion, but George Dally could have led him with a packthread to do anything.
To such old men, who probably had never lifted the smallest and lightest tool for many years, if ever, it was a back-breaking task. However, they clung dutifully to their work until the hour of twelve rang out. Now they were re-marshalled, their tools were re-shouldered, and they were marched back to camp for the mid-day meal.
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