"It is I, Allan, who have escaped alive." The next thing I remember was that she lay in my arms.
"What has happened here ?" I asked when I had told my tale, or some of it.
"Nothing, Allan," she answered.

"I received your letter at the camp, and we trekked away as you bade us, without telling the others why, because you remember the Commandant Retief wrote to us not to do so.

So we were out of the great slaughter, for the Zulus did not know where we had gone, and never followed us here, although I have heard that they sought for me.

My father and my cousin Hernan only arrived at the camp two days after the attack, and discovering or guessing our hiding-place--I know not which--rode on hither.

They say they came to warn the Boers to be careful, for they did not trust Dingaan, but were too late.