Suffice it to say that they were quite enough to take away all our appetite, although Carolus and Johannes, who by this time had recovered somewhat from the shock of that night of blood and terror, ate in a fashion which might have filled Hans himself with envy.
Shortly after we had finished our meal, Hans, who, by the way, seemed to have quite recovered from his fatigues, came to remove the dishes.

He informed us that all the Boers were having a great "talk," and that they were about to send for me.

Sure enough, a few minutes later two armed men arrived and ordered me to follow them.

I turned to say some words of farewell to Marie, but she said: "I go where you do, husband," and, as no objection was made by the guard, she came.
About two hundred yards away, sitting under the shade of one of the wagons, we found the Boers.

Six of them were seated in a semicircle upon stools or whatever they could find, the black-browed commandant being in the centre and having in front of him a rough table on which were writing materials.
To the left of these six were the Prinsloos and Meyers, being those folk whom I had rescued from Delagoa, and to the right the other Boers who had ridden into the camp that morning.