I think that you had better go back with your uncle, Henri Marais, to the trek-Boers, where they can be laid before a court and settled according to law." "If so, he will go back alone," said the Vrouw Prinsloo.

"He will not go back with us, for we will elect a field-cornet and shoot him--the stinkcat, who left us to starve and afterwards tried to kill little Allan Quatermain, who saved our lives"; and the chorus behind her echoed: "Ja, ja, we will shoot him." "Hernan Pereira," said Retief, rubbing his broad forehead, "I don't quite know why it is, but no one seems to want you as a companion.
Indeed, to speak truth, I don't myself.

Still, I think you would be safer with me than with these others whom you seem to have offended.
Therefore, I suggest that you come on with us.

But listen here, man," he added sternly, "if I find you plotting against us among the Zulus, that hour you are dead.

Do you understand ?" "I understand that I am one slandered," replied Pereira.