At first, however, they took no trouble to hunt for you when we should have been glad enough to give you up." "No," broke in Suzanne and I with one voice, and I added, "How do you dare to tell such lies in the face of the Lord, Jan ?" "-- --When it would not have been so bad to give you up," he went on, correcting himself.

"But now it seems that had you lived you would have inherited estates, or titles, or both." "Is the boy dead then ?" I asked.
"Be silent, wife, I mean--had he lived a Scotchman.

Therefore, having made inquiries, and learned that a lad of your name and age had been rescued from a shipwreck and was still alive among the Boers in the Transkei, they have set to work to hunt you, and are coming here to take you way, for I tell you that I heard it in the dorp yonder." "Is it so ?" said Ralph, while Suzanne hung upon his words with white face and trembling lips.

"Then I tell you that I will not go.

I may be English, but my home is here.