'Supposing other Kaffirs hear of it, and come back and make a bridge over the gorge?
They may be doing it now.' 'I'll put a guard on it,' he said, jumping up briskly.

'It's maybe not a soldier's job, but you've saved this country, Davie, and I'm going to make sure that you have your reward.' After that I went with Arcoll to Inanda's Kraal.

I am not going to tell the story of that performance, for it occupies no less than two chapters in Mr Upton's book.

He makes one or two blunders, for he spells my name with an 'o,' and he says we walked out of the camp on our perilous mission 'with faces white and set as a Crusader's.' That is certainly not true, for in the first place nobody saw us go who could judge how we looked, and in the second place we were both smoking and feeling quite cheerful.

At home they made a great fuss about it, and started a newspaper cry about the Victoria Cross, but the danger was not so terrible after all, and in any case it was nothing to what I had been through in the past week.
I take credit to myself for suggesting the idea.