"Amen," she said at last, and the girl by her side, speaking with a strange little accent, echoed the "Amen." I looked round at Brother John.

He had heard something and was utterly overcome.

Fortunately enough he could not move or even speak.
"Hold him," I whispered to Stephen and Mavovo, "while I go in and talk to these ladies." Then, handing the rifle to Hans, I took off my hat, pushed the gate a little wider open, slipped through it and called attention to my presence by coughing.
The two women, who had risen from their knees, stared at me as though they saw a ghost.
"Ladies," I said, bowing, "pray do not be alarmed.

You see God Almighty sometimes answers prayers.

In short, I am one of--a party--of white people who, with some trouble, have succeeded in getting to this place and--and--would you allow us to call on you ?" Still they stared.