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Hubbard returned and counted her valuables. She found them all there and thanked me for guarding them. She said it was by an oversight that she had gone away without locking up her treasures. She asked me how she should reward me. I told her that I was already rewarded, for I had guarded her jewels in order to protect myself from being suspected of their theft and so kangarooed into a slave-camp.
"Stop," he whispered swiftly into her ear, speaking in English, "I have come to rescue you. Go through with this farce, it means nothing. Then, if I bid you, run for the drawbridge into the slave-camp." She heard, a light of intelligence shone in her eyes, and her hand fell again. "Come, stop that, friend Pierre," said Pereira suspiciously. "What are you whispering about?"
Stop, pick up his clothes and arms." At that moment Otter himself arrived. "Quick," he said, "come over, Baas, before they see that the bridge is down. Give me my clothes and the gun." "All right, here they are," answered Leonard, and in another minute they were over the bridge and standing on the parapet of the slave-camp. "Into the guard-house, Baas; the windlass is there, but no man."
This camp was separated from the Nest enclosure by a deep canal, thirty feet in width and spanned at one point by a slender and primitive drawbridge that led across the canal to the gate of the camp. Also it was protected on the Nest side by a low wall, and on the slave-camp side by an earthwork, planted as usual with prickly-pears.
Had we taken it we should have lost our way, and perhaps have found it no more for days, or not at all." "Say, Otter," said Leonard, "you escaped from this slave-camp. How did you do it in a boat?" "No, Baas.
Another minute, and ropes began to creak. Then the tall drawbridge, standing upright like a scaffold against the sky, was seen to bend itself forward. Down it came very softly, and the slave-camp was open to them. Again the black shape appeared, this time on the bridge. "Come along," whispered Leonard to his companion; "that hero Otter has drowned the sentry and won the bridge.
When they had almost reached the boma whence we watched them amazed, they split into two bodies, half of them passing to our left, apparently under the command of the Mazitu who had accompanied Hans to the slave-camp, and the other half to the right following the old Hottentot himself. I stared at Mavovo, for I was too thunderstruck to speak.
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