"I have been wide awake and listening all this time, and I heard no gun; nor, indeed, do people go out shooting at night.

Also it is our business to watch here by the waggon till our master and mistress return." "Where can they have gone ?" said the driver, who felt frightened, he knew not why.

"It is strange that they should be so long away when it is time for them to sleep." "Who can account for the ways of white people ?" answered the other, shrugging his shoulders.

"Very often they sit up all night.

Doubtless these two will return when they are tired, or perhaps they desire to sleep in the veldt.