At any rate it is not our duty to interfere with them, seeing that they can come to no harm here where there are neither men nor tigers." "So be it," said the driver, and they both dozed off again till the messenger of ill came to rouse them.
Now Black Piet and his men crept up the kloof carrying Suzanne with them, till they came to a little patch of rocky ground at the head of it where they had left their horses.
"That was very well managed," said Piet as they loosed them and tightened their girths, "and none can ever know that we have made this journey.

To-morrow the bride and bridegroom will be missed, but the sea has one and I have the other, and hunt as they may they will never find her, nor guess where she has gone.

No, it will be remembered that they walked down to the sea, and folk will think that by chance they fell from the cliff into the deep water and vanished there.

Yes, it was well managed and none can guess the truth." Now the man to whom he spoke, that same man with whom the boy Zinti had heard him plot our murder in the Tiger Kloof, shrugged his shoulders and answered: "I think there is one who will guess." "Who is that, fool ?" "She about whose neck I once set a rope at your bidding, Bull-Head, and whose life was bought by those lips," and he pointed to Suzanne, "Sihamba Ngenyanga." "Why should she guess ?" asked Piet angrily.
"Has she not done so before?
Think of the great _schimmel_ and its rider in Tiger Kloof.

Moreover, what does her name mean?
Does it not mean 'Wanderer-by-moonlight,' and was not this great deed of yours a deed at the telling of which all who hear of it shall grow sick and silent, done in the moonlight, Bull-Head ?" Now as we learned afterwards from a man whom Jan took prisoner, and who told us everything which passed that night, hoping to buy his life, Piet made no answer to this saying, but turned to busy himself with his saddle, for, after his ill dealings with her, he was always afraid of Sihamba, and would never mention her name unless he was obliged.