For Arcoll had purposely turned his police into a flying column.

They no longer held a line; they scoured a country.

Only Laputa's incomparable veld-craft and great bodily strength prevented the two from being caught in half an hour.

They doubled back, swam the Labongo again, and got into the thick bush on the north side of the Blaauwildebeestefontein road.

The Basuto scouts were magnificent in the open, but in the cover they were again at fault.