I bade her do so because of the fire that rages inside me and the pain in my head.

Fear not, Baas, I do not drink beer when I am on guard." "Beer or water, I wish you would keep your wife at a distance," answered Leonard; "come, tell her to be off." Then he looked at his watch, the hands of which he could just distinguish by the distant glare of the torch, and went to sleep again.
This took place at ten minutes past eleven.

When he awoke again dawn was breaking and Otter was calling to him in a loud, hoarse voice.
"Baas," he said, "come here, Baas." Leonard jumped up and ran to him, to find the dwarf on his feet and staring vacantly at the wall against which Soa had been sitting.

She was gone, but there on the floor lay the ropes with which she had been tied.
Leonard sprang at Otter and seized him by the shoulders.
"Wretched man!" he cried, "you have been sleeping, and now she has escaped and we are lost." "Yes, Baas, I have been sleeping.

Kill me if you wish, for I deserve it.
And yet, Baas, never was I more wide-awake in my life until I drank that water.