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Updated: June 25, 2025
In the corner of the yard, close by the stable-door, surrounded by the aforesaid crowd, stood Frank Muller; a heavy sjambock in his raised hand, as though in the act to strike.
Henri Marais had given out that if I came near his daughter he would have me beaten back with "sjambocks" or hide whips. Perhaps he had gained some inkling of our last farewell in the peach orchard. I do not know. But I do know that if anyone had lifted a sjambock on me I should have answered with a bullet.
"Whom do you seek?" "You know well," I answered. "Yes, I know well. At the break of dawn he rode over yonder rise." "Why?" I asked. "How can I tell why? But Swart Piet lives out yonder." "Had he his gun with him?" I asked again and anxiously. "No, there was nothing but a sjambock, a very thick sjambock, in his hand."
"Now, Captain Niel, if you are ready, we must trek," said one of the Boers in Dutch, suiting the action to the word by giving the near wheeler a sharp cut with his riding sjambock that made him jump nearly out of the traces. Away started the horses with a plunge, scattering the crowd to the right and left, and, amid a volley of farewells, they were off upon their homeward journey.
"Off he rode, cursing and swearing, and I flung his sjambock after him. This was the first and last time that I saw my brother." "What became of him?" asked John Niel. "I'll tell you, just to show you again that there is a Power which keeps such men in its eye.
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