I will go out and look at the night." Presently he returned and said that a "small rain" had come on, and the clouds covered up the stars so that it was very dark.
"Well, let us go at once," said Jess.
"Missie, you had better not go," answered the Hottentot.

"You will get wet, and the Boers will catch you.

Better let me go.

I can creep about like a snake, and if the Boers catch me it won't matter." "You must come too, but I am going.

I must find out." Then the Hottentot shrugged his shoulders and yielded, and, having extinguished the candle, silently as ghosts they crept out into the night..