"I shouldn't be surprised when we come back to find that he has eluded Norton and gone." "Where ?" said West.
"Oh, he'll feel that his chance here is completely gone, and he'll make for the Cape and take passage for England." "If the Boers do not stop him." "Of course," replied Ingleborough.

"It's my impression that he has smuggled a lot of diamonds, though we couldn't bring it home to him." "I suppose it's possible," said West thoughtfully.

"But isn't it likely that he may make his way over to the enemy ?" Ingleborough looked at the speaker sharply.
"That's not a bad idea of yours," he said slowly; "but, if he does and he is afterwards caught, things might go very awkwardly for his lordship, and that flute of his will be for sale." "Flute for sale?
What do you mean?
From poverty ?--no one would employ him.

Oh! I understand now.

Horrible! You don't think our people would shoot him ?" "Perhaps not," said Ingleborough coldly; "but they'd treat him as a rebel and a spy.