So she sent him to procure this stuff.

Afterwards she spoke to the Vrouw Prinsloo, saying: "My plan is that Allan should escape from our house disguised as myself.
But as I know well that he will not run away while he has his senses, seeing that to do so in his mind would be to confess his guilt, I propose to take his senses from him by means of a drugged drink.

Then I propose that you and Hans should carry him into the shadow of this house, and when no one is looking, to the old grain-pit that lies but a few yards away, covering the mouth of it with dead grass.

There he will remain till the Boers grow tired of searching for him and ride away.

Or if it should chance that they find him, he will be no worse off than he was before." "A good plan enough, Marie, though not one that Allan would have anything to do with if he kept his wits," answered the vrouw, "seeing that he was always a man for facing things out, although so young in years.