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But Bough, primed with knowledge as to which are dummy rifle-pits and which are real, aided by acquaintance with the ground, and covered by that wuthering night of storm, has already pierced the lines. Subsequently that excellent Afrikander, Mr. Van Busch, rejoins Brounckers' bright boy at Tweipans, with information that decides the date of Schenk Eybel's Feint from the East.
His commanding officer nods, with the muscle in his lean cheek twitching. "Certainly. Aloud, if you'll be so good." Bingo reads, with haltings on the way, for the tissue sheets stick to his large fingers, which are damp with suppressed agitation: "HAARGROND PLAATS, "NEAR TWEIPANS, "October 30th. "To the Colonel Commanding Her Majesty's Forces in Gueldersdorp.
The single street of Tweipans bounded it upon the east, and a rocky ridge upon the western side that might have been the vertebra of some huge reptile of the Diluvian Period, protected camp and village from British shell-practice. Signs of this were not lacking.
We hear in the course of things from a Kaffir despatch-runner that she's stayin' in a hotel of sorts at Tweipans, where Brounckers has had his headquarters since he shifted Chief Laager from Geitfontein. And for any further information we may knock our rotten heads against a brick wall and twiddle our thumbs. Never you marry, Toby, my boy!"
You are invited, the very Sunday upon which the previously-recorded conversation took place, to make the acquaintance of the sprightly P. Blinders, Acting-Secretary to Commandant Selig Brounckers, Head Laager, Transvaal Republic and Orange Free State's United Forces, Tweipans.
Read 'em in the proper sequence. That one with the inky design at the top, that might be the pattern for a pair of fancy pyjamas that's the next." Bingo reads as follows: "KINK'S HOTEL, "TWEIPANS, "November 28th. "To the Colonel Commanding H. M. Forces in Gueldersdorp. "SIR, I beg to report myself arrived at Tweipans.
It had no beginning and no end. In it the Matron's room at the Convalescent Hospital and Kink's Family Hotel at Tweipans were somehow mixed up, and the ingenuous Mr.
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