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And then, when I was convinced it was possible, very wonderful, and, I confess it to you, very splendid. It seemed to help to reconcile me with myself in a way in which I had never been reconciled before." "And that was the beginning?" "I dare say. There were other things, too. Maurice Delarey isn't at all stupid, but he's not nearly so intelligent as I am." "That doesn't surprise me."
Artois spoke to him in Italian. His eyes lit up as he answered with the accent of Naples, lit up still more when Artois spoke to him again in his own dialect. When he had served the coffee he went out, glowing. "Is your honeymoon to be Italian?" asked Artois. "Whatever Hermione likes," answered Delarey. "I it doesn't matter to me. Wherever it is will be the same to me."
Thus he tried to raise up barriers against his feeling that Delarey had got into some terrible trouble during the absence of Hermione, that he was now stricken with remorse, and that he was also in active dread of something, perhaps of some Nemesis. "All this may be imagination," Artois thought, as he sipped his coffee. But he said again: "I don't think I could sleep.
To drive Delarey on to it, they must rapidly place themselves west of him; and this could be done only by a night march of mounted men darting through his commandos and then pressing him on to the Schoon Spruit in the opposite direction. The operation, which was of spirited and ingenious conception, was carried out on March 23.
On October 24 Delarey fell in with one of Methuen's columns on its way to Zeerust. The column, which was impeded by wagons slowly progressing along a bad road in a defile, was pounced upon unexpectedly and hewn in twain; but if, as usual, the scouting was poor the defence was excellent.
"Delarey loved you," Artois said, suddenly, interrupting her in a strong, deep voice, a voice that rang with true conviction. "He never loved me. Perhaps he thought he did. He must have thought so. And that first day when we were coming up the mountain-side " She stopped.
At his urgent request a small portion of the troops which had been taken from him was restored, with a few wagons; but they left Krugersdorp too late to be of service. Clements was under the impression that he had only Delarey to deal with, and was unaware that Beyers was on his way to carry out the orders he had received from Botha.
The junction of the two columns advancing to the relief of Mafeking Plumer's from the north and Mahon's from the south was effected at the right moment, for it is doubtful whether either of them acting alone would have been able to deal with Delarey. Plumer with the Rhodesian Regiment had been trekking here and there and skirmishing with the enemy for seven months.
Delarey, who had checked French at Diamond Hill, came out of the east to quicken the west; the baffled burghers of Snyman, released from the siege of Mafeking, were trickling vaguely into the district; a force under Grobler of Waterberg was reported north of Pretoria; an incursion was made across the Vaal from the Free State; and commandos appeared south of the Magaliesberg near Olifant's Nek and Commando Nek, thus threatening the movements of Baden-Powell, who was operating north of the range and who had occupied Commando Nek and the adjacent Zilikat's Nek on July 2, leaving only a small force at Rustenburg.
He was compelled to place all his westward outposts, except one double picket, on the right bank, as the veld on the left bank was bushy and rose gradually from the river and would have absorbed more men than he could spare for outpost duty. Delarey was accurately informed of Kekewich's movements, and it is said had actually reconnoitred the camp unobserved a few hours after Kekewich's arrival.
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