"WE MUST PART, JOHN" Jess and her companion stood in awed silence and gazed at the blackening and distorted corpses of the thunder-blasted Boers.

Then they passed by them to the tree which grew some ten paces or more on the other side of the place of death.

There was some difficulty in leading the horses by the bodies, but at last they came with a wheel and a snort of suspicion, and were tied up to the tree by John.

Meanwhile Jess took some of the hard-boiled eggs out of the basket and vanished, remarking that she should take her clothes off and dry them in the sun while she at her breakfast, and that she advised him to do likewise.

Accordingly, so soon as she was well out of sight behind the shelter of the rocks she set to work to free herself from her sodden garments, a task of no little difficulty.