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Updated: June 3, 2025
It were easier to live alone to the end with her own remorse, drinking the cup that would not empty, on and on, than to live with that look in his eyes. She turned her head away from him. Her glance suddenly caught a sjambok lying along two nails on the wall.
Of course we at once threw everything overboard and loaded our wagon afresh with gold, as much of it as the blessed thing would carry or the oxen drag. And then what must that born idiot Van Raalte do but quarrel with one of the indunas about some trumpery thing, and slash the man across the face with his sjambok!
It swayed and swung, as the horses wildly took the incline of the hills, Krool's sjambok swinging above them; it struggled with the forces that dragged it higher and higher up, as though it were human and understood that it was a British gun being carried into the Boer lines.
With an obscene malediction at the body, he sprang upon a horse. A sjambok swung, and with a snort, which was half a groan, the trained horses sprang forward. "The Rooinek's gun for Oom Paul!" he shouted back over his shoulder. Most prisoners would have been content to escape and save their skins, but a more primitive spirit lived in Krool. Escape was not enough for him.
With fifty men I'd hold this place Thin-faced man. They'll be here to-night, old De Wet says, and they're to come here and sjambok the Englishmen who've been talking too much. That's what comes of being loyal! Fat man. Loyal! With fifty men No, you wouldn't. What! Not keep the bridge with fifty men Brown-faced, grey-haired man.
"Krool why, yes, it was he I saw being helped into a cab by a policeman just down there in Piccadilly. You don't mean that Rudyard " She pushed the sjambok away from her. "Yes terribly." "Then I suppose the insolence was terrible enough to justify it." "Quite, I think." Jasmine's voice was calm. "But of course it is not usual in these parts." "Rudyard is not usual in these parts, or Krool either.
Barry Whalen's fingers closed on the whip, and now a look of fear crept over Krool's face. If there was one thing calculated to stir with fear the Hottentot blood in him, it was the sight of the sjambok.
Lifting the sjambok he cut Ishmael across the mouth so sharply that the blood came from his lips, then suddenly remembering that this deed would probably mean his death, stood still awaiting the issue. As it chanced it did not, for the man, like most brutes and bullies, was a coward, as Rachel had already found out.
Then came the sharp crack as of a sjambok wielded by a strong and well-accustomed arm. "A miss, and no wonder!"
Well, you have lost that ambition. I know why you came out here. No one ever told me. The thing behind the words in your letter tells me plainer than words. The last time I saw you in London do you remember when it was? It was the day that Rudyard Byng drove Krool into Park Lane with the sjambok.
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