Ah, he is a devil of a man, that Frank Muller! So I went, and when I saw how the dear Lord had put it into the heart of the English general to be a bigger fool even that day than he is every day, and to try and drive us out of Laing's Nek with a thousand of his poor _rooibaatjes_, then, I tell you, I saw where the right lay, and I said, 'Damn the English Government! What is the English Government doing here ?' and after Ingogo I said it again." "Never mind all that, _Oom_ Coetzee," broke in Jess.

"I have heard you tell a different tale before, and perhaps you will again.

How are my uncle and my sister?
Are they at the farm ?" "Almighty! you don't suppose that I have been there to see, do you?
But, yes, I have heard they are there.

It is a nice place, that Mooifontein, and I think that I shall buy it when we have turned all you English people out of the land.

Frank Muller told me that they were there.