I know how to read the omen;" and he gnashed his teeth and sawed the air with his clenched fists.
"Yes, you are right, Jantje," she said, still holding him with her dark eyes.

"He will die in blood, and he will die to-night, and _you_ will kill him, Jantje." The Hottentot started, and turned pale under his yellow skin.
"How ?" he said; "how ?" "Bend forward, Jantje, and I will tell you how;" and Jess whispered for some minutes into his ear.
"Yes! yes! yes!" he said when she had done.

"Oh, what a fine thing it is to be clever like the white people! I will kill him to-night, and then I can cut out the notches, and the spooks of my father and my mother and my uncle will stop howling round me in the dark as they do now, when I am asleep.".