"The Doppies can't be coming on, or they'd have been seen before now." Almost as he spoke the two officers strode to one end of the rampart and began to inspect the veldt again.

The next minute they were making for the opposite side of the great building, to examine the country in that direction; and here they stood for a long time.
"Oh dear!" groaned Denham at last.

"What's-its-name deferred makes the heart sink into your boots.

It's a false alarm." "Not it," I said, "for there has been no alarm." "Well, you know what I mean.

It's all over.