"They'd as soon steal as eat!" "We'd better all stay here together," said Will, "and take turns keeping watch till morning." He said it with a straight face, but I did not think he was in earnest.
"Ach!" exclaimed Schubert.

"That is all ganz einfach! You shall have askaris!" He turned and shouted an order.

A non-commissioned officer went running back up-street.
"You shall have three askaris to guard your camp.

So nothing whatever shall be stolen! Then come along and make music--seien Sie gemuthlich! Yah ?" Brown had already gone, jingling money in his pocket.

We waited until the Nubian soldiers came--saw them posted--and then walked up-street behind the sergeants, Schubert leading us all, and I limping between Fred and Will.