But for the present it is best to do nothing, except keep an eye on him, lest we should cause fear and scandal in the camp, and, after all, not prove the case.

Now go and write your letter, and leave me to write mine." So I went and wrote, telling Marie something, but by no means all of that I have set down.

I bade her, and the Prinsloos and the Meyers, if they would accompany her, as I was sure they would, move themselves off at once to the farm I had beaconed out thirty miles away from the Bushman's River, under pretence of seeing how the houses that were being built there were getting on.

Or if they would not go, I bade her go alone with a few Hottentot servants, or any other companions she could find.
This letter I took to Retief, and read it to him.

At my request, also, he scrawled at the foot of it: "I have seen the above and approve it, knowing all the story, which may be true or false.