She has escaped from Swart Piet and is unharmed, but a prisoner among the Kaffirs.

And, mother, she and I will meet again upon a great mountain like a fortress, which has ridges on its eastern side resembling the thumb and fingers of a man, and a stream of water gushing out between the thumb and first finger." "Doubtless, doubtless," I said, for I saw that he was wandering in his mind.
"Ah!" Ralph answered, "you do not believe me, but it is true.

I tell you that I saw Suzanne just now wearing a fine kaross of tiger skins upon her shoulders, and that she kissed me on the forehead," and even as he spoke he sank into a deep and quiet sleep, and when he awoke in the morning we found that the fever had left him and that he was out of danger of his life..