28/35 He was the dark-browed commandant who had tried and condemned me to death. He dismounted, and, staring at the two figures that lay upon the ground, said in a loud and terrible voice: "What is this? One is a woman--my only child; and the other is a devil, who, being a devil, will not die. Give me another gun that I may make him die." The commandant looked about him wildly, and his eye fell upon the Vrouw Prinsloo. |