'If what you say of his folly is true I have no part in it.

But he was my companion and I wish him well.

What do you propose to do with him ?' 'We will keep him under our eye,' he said, with a wicked twist of the mouth.

'I have a notion that there is more at the back of this than appears.

We will investigate the antecedents of Herr Pienaar.