But first he must be fast asleep.

Fast, fast asleep." Then slowly and with the uttermost caution once more they crept down the hill.

This time there was no sound to be heard except the regular tramp of the sentries.

But their present business did not take them to the waggon-house; they left that on their right, and went on towards the blue-gum avenue.

When they were nearly opposite to the first tree they halted in a patch of stones, and Jantje slipped forward to reconnoitre.
Presently he returned with the intelligence that all the Boers who were with the waggon had gone to sleep, but that Muller was still sitting in his tent thinking.