As he came down he dropped the _sjambock_ from his hand, and I laid hold of it and then and there gave him the soundest hiding a man ever had.

Lord, how he did holloa! When I was tired I let him get up.
"'Now,' I said, 'be off with you, and if you come back here I'll bid the Kafirs hunt you to Natal with their sticks.

This is the South African Republic, and we don't care overmuch about law here.' Which we didn't in those days.
"'All right, Silas,' he said, 'all right, you shall pay for this.
I'll have those children, and, for your sake, I'll make their lives a hell--you mark my words--South African Republic or no South African Republic.

I've got the law on my side.' "Off he rode, cursing and swearing, and I flung his _sjambock_ after him.

This was the first and last time that I saw my brother." "What became of him ?" asked John Niel.
"I'll tell you, just to show you again that there is a Power which keeps such men in its eye.