I saw it listening behind a stone when you were up the kloof last evening talking with the Opener-of-Roads." "Then Zikali will lack a spirit," I answered, laughing, "which perhaps he will not miss amongst so many.

It serves him right for setting the brute on me." "Quite so, Baas.

He will be angry.

I wonder why he did it ?" he added suspiciously, "seeing that he is such a friend of yours." "He didn't do it, Hans.

These snakes are very fierce and give battle, that is all." Hans paid no attention to my remark, which probably he thought only worthy of a white man who does not understand, but rolled his yellow, bloodshot eyes about, as though in search of explanations.