If only she could manage to communicate with Bessie! At any rate it was absolutely necessary that she should know what was happening.

She might as well be a hundred miles away as a hundred yards.
"Jantje," she said, "tell me where the Boers are." "Some are in the waggon-house, missie, some are on sentry, and the rest are down by the waggon they brought with them and outspanned behind the gums there.

The cart is there, too, that came just before you did, with the clergyman in it." "And where is Frank Muller ?" "I don't know, missie; but he brought a round tent with him in the waggon, and it is pitched between the two big gums." "Jantje, I must go down there and find out what is going on, and you must come with me." "You will be caught, missie.

There is a sentry at the back of the waggon-house, and two in front.

But," he added, "perhaps we might get near.