If I can buy the Shepherdess I will.

If not, I must try to get her off in some other way." "So be it, Baas, and now let us eat, for we shall need all our strength to-night.

Then we will go down to the landing-place and take our chance." They ate of the food they had with them and drank sparingly of the slave-dealers' brandy, saying little the while, for the shadow of what was to come lay upon them.

Even the phlegmatic and fatalistic Otter was depressed, perhaps because of the associations of the place, which, for him, were painful, perhaps because of the magnitude of their undertaking.

Never had he known such a tale, never had he seen such an adventure as this--that two men and an old woman should attack an armed camp.