A sharp pang of despair went through him as he watched the passionate pale face and the great eyes dim with tears.

How was he to part from her?
He put out his arms to take her in them, but she pushed him away almost fiercely.
"Have you no honour ?" she cried.

"Is it not all hard enough to bear without your tempting me?
I tell you it is done with.

Finish saddling that horse and let us start.

The sooner we get off the sooner it will be over, unless the Boers catch us again and shoot us, which for my own part I devoutly hope they may.