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Updated: June 2, 2025
Then a terrific fusillade broke out from this new direction, rendering the roadway a place of the greatest danger. My quarters were evidently getting too hot, and I knew that Weil's house and store would be the first objective of the Boers. I bethought me even novices might be useful in the hospital, so I decided to proceed there in one way or another.
Weil's house, having previously dined with the Colonel and Staff. At 6 a.m. Sunday morning we were awakened by three shells bursting close by, one after the other. I believe no one was more frightened than Eloff; but he told us that it was a preconcerted signal, and that, if they had been in possession of the town, they were to have answered by rifle-fire, when the Boers would have marched in.
But one day Christophe found him absorbed in reading a book which he would not let him see. And when Celine took Christophe to the door and found herself alone with him, she said: "Do you know what he was reading? One of M. Weil's books." Christophe was delighted. "What does he say about it?" "He says: 'Beast!... But he can't put it down."
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