[Finished by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookFinished CHAPTER X 5/22
This was not wonderful, seeing that for two days and nights practically I had not rested, during which time I went through much fatigue and many emotions. When at length I did wake up, the first thing I saw was Anscombe already dressed, engaged in cleaning my clothes with a brush from his toilet case.
I remember thinking how smart and incongruous that dressing-bag, made appropriately enough of crocodile hide, looked in this Kaffir hut with its silver-topped bottles and its ivory-handled razors. "Time to get up, Sir.
Bath ready, Sir," he said in his jolly, drawling voice, pointing to a calabash full of hot water.
"Hope you slept as well as I did, Sir." "You appear to have recovered your spirits," I remarked as I rose and began to wash myself. "Yes, Sir, and why not? Heda is quite well, for I have seen her. These Swazis are very good people, and as Kaatje understands their language, bring us all we want.
Our troubles seem to be done with.
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