"I want to watch and make sure where the wagons are drawn up." Denham ceased speaking, and during the next half-hour I watched till I had seen tin; six wagons drawn up pretty close together, and their black drivers moving about attending to the oxen; now all grew faint and indistinct, then completely faded out of sight; not, however, until I had made up my mind that I could go straight away from the old fort and find the place, though there were minutes when the task in the dark seemed impossible.
Turning to Joeboy, who had twice looked through the glass, I asked: "Do you think we could find those wagons in the dark ?" "Um?
Joeboy could," he replied promptly.

"Go right straight." I breathed more freely then, and suggested to Denham that I should go and report to the Colonel what I had seen.
"Yes; at once," he said.

"Come along; and I want to have command of one of the troops sent out to bring you in." We had commenced the descent when Denham stopped me.
"Look here," he said; "I have a good thought.

We ought to arrange some signal to let me know your whereabouts when you are returning with the wagon." "I haven't got it yet," I said.
"No, but you're going to get it," he said confidently; "and I want to be able to come to you with fifty men, and to make sure of bringing you in.
Now then, what will your signal be?
Because, if I hear it out on the veldt we can ride straight off to you.

Can you yell like a hyena ?" "No," I said promptly.