"Allemachter! son, you must be mad to play the fool thus, for doubtless the sneaking villain will murder you the first time your back is turned.

Come, stand aside and I will finish it." Now the young man, whose name was Gaasha, seeing that he was about to be shot, threw himself upon the ground, and clasping Ralph round the knees, implored for mercy.
"Save me, Baas," he prayed, "save me, and you will always be glad of it, for I tell you I bring you good luck, I tell you I bring you good luck." "Father," said Ralph, setting his mouth, "if you kill this Kaffir it will be a cause of quarrel between us, and we never quarrelled yet." "Quarrel or no quarrel, he shall die," said Jan in a rage, for he thought it the strangest folly that Ralph should wish to spare a black man.
At that moment, however, something seemed to strike his mind, for his face grew puzzled, and he looked about him almost anxiously.
"Where have I seen it before ?" he said, as though he were speaking to himself.

"The veldt all red with blood and sunset, the laager behind and the Kaffir with the wounded foot holding Ralph by the knees.
Allemachter! I know.

It was that day in the _sit-kammer_[*] at the stead yonder, when the little doctoress, Sihamba, made me look into her eyes; yes, yes, I have seen it all in the eyes of Sihamba.

Well, let the lad live, for without a doubt Sihamba did not show me this picture that should be for nothing.