But I have a presentiment that some mischief is afoot in these hills.

I feel it in my bones.' I confess I was startled by these words.

You must remember that I had never given a hint of my suspicions to Mr Wardlaw beyond asking him if a wizard lived in the neighbourhood--a question anybody might have put.
But here was the schoolmaster discovering for himself some mystery in Blaauwildebeestefontein.
I tried to get at his evidence, but it was very little.

He thought there were an awful lot of blacks about.

'The woods are full of them,' he said.