Also the Hottentot must have orders as to where he is to get a horse to ride with him, so pray let us pass, mynheer." "Very good; it is no affair of ours, Vrouw Quatermain-- Stay, I suppose that you have no arms under that long cloak of yours." "Search me, if you will, mynheer," she answered, opening the cloak, whereon, after a quick glance, he nodded and bade them enter, saying: "Mind, you are to come out by ten o'clock.

You must not pass the night in that house, or we shall have the little Englishman oversleeping himself in the morning." Then they entered and found me seated at a table preparing notes for my defence and setting down the heads of the facts of my relations with Pereira, Dingaan, and the late Commandant Retief.
Here I may state that my condition at the time was not one of fear, but rather of burning indignation.

Indeed, I had not the slightest doubt but that when my case was re-tried before the great council, I should be able to establish my complete innocence of the abominable charges that had been brought against me.

Therefore it came about that when Marie suggested that I should try to escape, I begged her almost roughly not to mention such a thing again.
"Run away!" I said.

"Why, that would be to confess myself guilty, for only the guilty run away.