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There lay its skeleton picked clean by the great brown kites that frequent the bush-veld, some of which still sat about in the trees. "Well, I suppose we must go on to Tampel," said Anscombe rather faintly, for I could see that his wound was giving him a good deal of pain. As he spoke from round the tree whence he had first emerged, appeared Mr.
At first I could not make out what "Tampel" was, as it did not sound like a native name. Then I remembered that Mr. Marnham had spoken of his house as being called the Temple, of which, of course, Tampel was a corruption; also that he said he and his partner were labour agents. "Why are they afraid?" I asked.
He went as I bade him, and coming back presently, told me that a party of Basutos, about thirty in number, who were returning from Kimberley, where they had been at work in the mines, under the leadership of a Bastard named Karl, asked leave to camp by the wagon for the night, as they were afraid to go on to "Tampel" in the dark.
"Because the Baas Whitebeard, he who dwells at Tampel, is, he says, a very angry man if he thinks himself cheated, and Karl is afraid lest he should kill him as another was killed, he whose spook haunts the wood through which those silly people feared to pass last night." "Who was killed and who killed him?" I asked.
"It is impossible to solve problems at this hour of the morning, Quatermain, and there is no time to toss. So I vote for the Temple." "It seems our best chance. At any rate that's your choice, so let's go." Then I sang out to the Kaffirs, "The Basutos are on us. We go to Tampel for refuge. Run!" My word! they did run. I never saw athletes make better time over the first quarter of a mile.
Baas," he said, "I don't think this Tampel very healthy for coloured people. I am told of some who have died here. That man Karl who gave me the diamond, I think he must have died also, at least I saw his spook last night standing over me and shaking his head, and the boys saw it too."
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