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Updated: June 3, 2025


"What does that mean?" she asked, striving to speak lightly. He replied with his eyes lowered again to his task. "It means among other things that you can't get back to Ritzen until the floods go down. Ritter Spruit is a foaming torrent by this time." "Good heavens!" she exclaimed. "But isn't there isn't there a bridge anywhere?" "Forty miles away," said Burke Ranger laconically.

Before you left the farm." The memory of his going, his touch, his smile went through her with the words. She had a sickening sensation as of having been struck over the heart. "Where did you spend last night?" he said. "At Ritzen." Her white lips seemed to speak mechanically. She herself stood apart as it were, stunned beyond feeling. "You came here by rail -alone?"

Ritzen was the nearest railway station to the farm on which Guy worked. From here she would have to travel twenty miles across country. But that would not be yet. Guy and she would be married first. There would be a little breathing-space at Ritzen before she went into that new life that awaited her beyond the hills. Somehow she felt as if those hills guarded her destiny.

"But it is not a good time for travelling." "Oh, let us take it!" she said feverishly. "Please let us take it! We might get back to the farm by to-night then." He had sent his horse back to Ritzen the previous day in the care of a man he knew, so that both their animals would be waiting for them. "Do you want to get back?" said Burke. "Oh, yes yes! Anything is better than this."

But he would be at Ritzen. He had cabled a month before that he would meet her there if he could not get to Cape Town. And now she was nearing Ritzen. Across the mysterious desolation she discerned its many lights. It was a city in a plain, and the far hills mounted guard around it, but she saw them only dimly in the failing light.

She went back to her office then, closing the door between, and Sylvia was left to recover as best she might. She forced herself after a time to eat and drink, reflecting that physical weakness would utterly unfit her for the task before her. She hoped with all her heart that Guy would come soon soon. There was a night train back to Ritzen. She had ascertained that at the station.

It was several hours later that Sylvia awoke to full consciousness and a piercing realization of a strange presence that watched by her side. She opened her eyes wide with a curious conviction that there was a cat in the room, and then all in a moment she met the cool, repellent stare of the black-browed doctor whom Burke had brought from Ritzen.

"We're wondering my wife and I how Burke had the good fortune to get married to you," he said. "You're new to this country, aren't you? And he hasn't been out of it as long as I have known him." Sylvia looked up at him in momentary confusion. Then she laughed. "We picked each other up at Ritzen," she said. "Ritzen!" he echoed in amazement, "What on earth took you there?"

Vreiboom saw you with me at Ritzen yesterday," he said, and she suddenly remembered the knot of Boer farmers at the hotel-door and the staring eyes that had abashed her. She glanced up at Burke, but his face was quite emotionless. Only something about him an indefinable something held her back from correcting the mistake that Vreiboom had made.

But the lady seemed to be in a great hurry, so we did not detain them. They are probably at Ritzen by now, if not beyond." "Oh, damnation!" said Kelly tragically. Kieff's smile slowly vanished. His eyes took on a stony, remote look as though the matter had ceased to interest him. And while Kelly tramped impotently about the room, he leaned his shoulders against the wall and stared into space.

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