Then I thought of you, dear, and of all that you must be suffering, and my heart nearly broke.
I could only pray to God that I might either be rescued or die swiftly.
"As I prayed I dropped into a kind of doze from utter weariness, and then I had the strangest dream.

I dreamed that Indaba-zimbi stood over me nodding his white lock, and spoke to me in Kaffir, telling me not to be frightened, for you would soon be with me, and that meanwhile I must humour Hendrika, pretending to be pleased to have her near me.

The dream was so vivid that I actually seemed to see and hear him, as I see and hear him now." Here I looked up and glanced at old Indaba-zimbi, who was sitting near.
But it was not till afterwards that I told Stella of how her vision was brought about.
"At any rate," she went on, "when I awoke I determined to act on my dream.

I took Hendrika's hand, and pressed it.

She actually laughed in a wild kind of way with happiness, and laid her head upon my knee.