There, don't cry, they are all right at Mooifontein, and I dare say that we shall win back there somehow some time or other.

I had a nice business to get here at all, I can tell you." Suddenly she stopped weeping and smiled, her tears passing away like a summer storm.

"How did you get through ?" she asked.

"Tell me all about it, Captain Niel," and accordingly he did.
She listened in silence while he sketched the chief events of his journey, and when he had done she spoke in quite a changed tone.
"It is very good and kind of you to have risked your life like this for me.

Only I wonder that you did not all of you see that it would be of no use.