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Evidently Thomaso's temper had been ruffled by this sudden and violent disturbance of his nap. Just then our host appeared puffing with his exertions and declaring that he had stirred up the swine with a vengeance, in proof of which he pointed to the sjambok that was reddened with blood. "Captain Robertson," I said, "I wish to give you a hint to be passed on to Mr. Thomaso, if that is he.
And now there was not one of them that saw anything incongruous in the whip of rhinoceros-hide lying on the table, or clinched in Barry Whalen's hand. On the contrary, it gave them a sense of supreme naturalness. They had lived in a land where the sjambok was the symbol of progress. It represented the forward movement of civilization in the wilderness.
The dapper sergeant cocked his felt smasher hat, and turned between pleasantly smiling lips the cigar he was smoking. Then he pointed with his riding-whip, a neatly varnished sjambok, with a smart silver top, to the north-west. "There lies Gueldersdorp. Rum that when the lightning killed the ox-team you should have been trekking north-east, isn't it?"
"Even Tynemouth would find you interesting and convincing. Go on." "I haven't anything more to say, except that nothing lies between me and flagellation and the sack cloth," she toyed with the sjambok "except the Climbers; and they have failed me. They won't play or pay." Jasmine rose from the desk and came forward with a paper in her hand. "No, they have not failed you, Alice," she said, gently.
"I do not know his name, but I heard one of the Boers say, 'That slim duyvel with the sjambok is the new Military Commandant. Another officer was with him, much younger, taller, and with fair hair. He " "I hope I shall soon have an opportunity of thanking the Commandant personally. As it is, I shall write. Now go, my dear."
By his glance and by his word of assent, Wallstein set the cue for the rest, and they all got up and went slowly into the other room. Barry Whalen was about to take the sjambok, but Stafford laid his hand upon it, and Barry and he exchanged a look of understanding. "Stafford's a little bit of us in a way," said Barry in a whisper to Wallstein as they left the room.
He looked rather dejected or stormy, I don't quite know which." "Does it matter which? I didn't see Mennaval today." "Then no wonder he looked dejected and stormy. But what is the history of this instrument of torture?" she asked, holding up the sjambok again. "Krool." "Krool! Jasmine, you surely don't mean to say that you " "Not I it was Rudyard. Krool was insolent a half-caste, you know."
You haven't even a sjambok." His eyes gleamed suddenly. "And there isn't space enough to use it if you had." "I don't need even a sjambok," Burke said, "to kill a rat like you." "No. And I shan't die so hard as a rat either. All the same," Guy spoke with quiet determination, "you can't do it here. Damn it, man! Are you afraid I shall run away?" "No!" The answer came like a blow.
"You remember you asked me to come, Jasmine, when you took the sjambok from me." He nodded towards the table where it lay, then went forward and picked it up, his face hardening as he did so. Like a pendulum her mood swung back. By accident he had said the one thing which could have moved her, changed her at the moment. The savage side of him appealed to her.
Oom Paul had been a mere savage master; but here was a master whose very tongue could excoriate him like Oom Paul's sjambok; whom, at bottom, he loved in his way as he had never loved anything; whom he had betrayed, not realizing the hideous nature of his deed; having argued that it was against England his treachery was directed, and that was a virtue in his eyes; not seeing what direct injury could come to Byng through it.
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