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Nothing is quite perfect in the world, Macumazahn, and if Mameena does not chance to love her husband " and he shrugged his shoulders and drank some "squareface." "Of course it does not matter in the least, Umbezi, except to Mameena and her husband, who no doubt will settle down in time, now that Saduko is married to a princess of the Zulu House."
Although it was difficult to say whence they came, for they appeared like ghosts out of the bush, I thought it well to take no notice of them, since I guessed that their coming was prearranged. "Who are they?" I whispered to Scowl, as he brought me my tot of "squareface." "Saduko's wild men," he answered in the same low voice, "outlaws of his tribe who live among the rocks."
"There was a bloke that used to hang around the place kind of coloured loafer, with Dutch blood, overgiven to Squareface and whisky. He got going gay with the girl " She stood like a statue of ebony and ivory. Only by the deep breaths that heaved her broad bosom could you tell she lived by that, and by the unswerving watchfulness of those burning eyes.
Pour out some of that squareface, and here, mix it with this milk." She obeyed, and while he held up her father's head, with a trembling hand emptied a little of the drink into his mouth. At first it ran out again, then almost automatically he swallowed some, and they knew that he was alive, and thanked Heaven. Ten minutes later Mr.
Then the White Man crept back to his bed, and the shivering natives, fortified with gin, or squareface, as it is called locally, took refuge on the second wagon, drawing a tent-sail over them. For awhile there was silence, save for the moaning of the huddled and restless cattle. "If the snow goes on I shall lose my oxen," he said to himself; "they can never bear this cold."
Benita bethought her of the fairy tales of her childhood, in which the ogre fed up the princess whom he purposed to devour. "You should think of your own strength, Mr. Meyer," she said; "you cannot live on coffee and squareface." "It is all I need to-night. I am astonishingly well since you came back. I can never remember feeling so well, or so strong.
Thus, apple-brandy, and peach liqueur, "Old Squareface," in the squat, four-sided bottles beloved no less by Dutchman and Afrikander, American and Briton, Paddy from Cork, and Heinrich from the German Fatherland, than by John Chinkey in default of arrack and the swart and woolly-headed descendant of Ham, may be signified under the all-embracing designation.
Yes, yes, my friend, I should have been in some such place as yours to-day, and that is the last thing that I wish. And now, Umbezi, you have had quite enough 'squareface, so I will take the bottle away with me. Good-night." On the following morning I trekked very early from Umbezi's kraal before he was up indeed, for the "squareface" made him sleep sound.
Clifford ceased speaking, and filled his pipe, while Meyer helped himself to squareface in an absent manner. As for Benita, she stared at the quaint old coin, which had a hole in it, wondering with what scenes of terror and of bloodshed it had been connected. "Keep it," said her father. "It will go on that bracelet of yours." "Thank you, dear," she answered.
"Now if I were not in Natal, I should say that there was a heavy fall of snow coming," said the White Man to himself. "I have often seen the sky look like that in Scotland before snow." Then he reflected that there had been no deep snow in Natal for years, and, having drunk a "tot" of squareface and smoked his pipe, he went to bed beneath the after-tent of his larger wagon.
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