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Updated: June 28, 2025
"I felt that through the floor." Retief turned to the broad-shouldered man. "This game's all right for beginners," he said. "But I'd like to talk a really big gamble. Why don't we go to your office, Mr. Zorn?" "Your proposition interests me," Zorn said, grinding out the stump of his dope stick in a brass ashtray. "But there's some angles to this I haven't mentioned yet."
That thereon I caused him to be detained by the Zulus while I went to Retief and told him some false story about him, Pereira, which caused Retief to drive him out of his camp and give orders that none of the Boers should so much as speak to him. That then he did the only thing he could.
He said that when Retief came up with the commission he tried to warn him against me, but that Retief would not listen, being infatuated with me as many others were, and he looked towards the Prinsloos. Then came the worst of all.
Dingaan said that it was good, and put his mark upon it, and Retief and all the Boers were pleased, and smiled across their faces. Now they would have said farewell, but Dingaan forbade them, saying that they must not go yet: first they must eat and see the soldiers dance a little, and he commanded dishes of boiled flesh which had been made ready and bowls of milk to be brought to them.
Retief, I noticed, lifted his hand to do so, then let it fall again, muttering: "Let be; he is possessed with a devil." At last Marais ceased, not, I think, from lack of words, but because he was exhausted, and stood before us, his tall form quivering, and his thin, nervous face working like that of a person in convulsions.
Pieter Retief caught sight of me being helped out of the cart by my father and Hans, whom I had brought to load, and for a moment looked puzzled. Evidently his thoughts were far away. Then he remembered and exclaimed in his jolly voice: "Why! here is our little Englishman come to shoot off his match like a man of his word.
However, his mind was quite clear. He was watching for a loophole of escape. And he lost no detail of the scene before him. A matter which puzzled him greatly was the familiar voice of the raider. Retief, as he knew him, spoke with a pronounced accent, but now he only heard the ordinary tones of an Englishman. Bill had purposely abandoned his exaggerated Western drawl.
Magnan and Retief moved through the crowd toward the wide-open doors. Magnan plucked at Retief's sleeve. "Are you sure we ought to push right in like this? Maybe we ought to wait a bit, look around...." "When you're where you have no business being," Retief said, "always stride along purposefully. If you loiter, people begin to get curious."
As "the Ferret" did not speak one of the men commented aloud. "Smart work, sergeant," he said quietly. "I'm not surprised that this fellow rode roughshod over the district for so long and escaped all who were sent to nab him. He's clever, is P. Retief, Esq." Horrocks was looking out across the great keg.
Only, either because some of those that had already passed had sighted the Kaffirs collecting the fallen birds and risen an example which the others noted from afar and followed or because in an unknown way warning of their danger had been conveyed to them, they were flying higher and faster than the first arrivals. "You will have the worst of it, Allan," said Retief.
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