I thought this fellow looked honest." The Kaffir darted a grateful look at the speaker, which told plainly enough that he comprehended the words, and Anson replied with a smile.
"Ah, you ought to be on this job, Mr Anson," said the chief searcher sarcastically.

"You'd be invaluable here." Anson laughed good-humouredly.
"You're bantering," he said; "I know.

But I should like it, and I fancy I could find the diamonds quickly enough if a man had hidden any." "Find them then now," said the man who had spoken.

"Come on." There was a general laugh here, in which Anson joined.
"Nay," he said good-humouredly; "get another subject who has some hidden.

That chap has none, unless he has swallowed some." "What would you do then, squire ?" said the man.