Rather than be at the pains of hollowing another grave, they buried him in the very place that he had caused to be dug to receive the body of Silas Croft.
Who had murdered Frank Muller was and remains a mystery among them to this day.

The knife was identified by natives about the farm as belonging to the Hottentot Jantje, and a Hottentot had been seen running away from the place of the deed and hunted for some way, but he could not be caught or heard of again.

Therefore many of them are of the opinion that he is the guilty man.

Others, again, believe that the crime rests upon the shoulders of the villainous one-eyed Kafir, Hendrik, Muller's own servant, who had also vanished.

But as they have never found either of them, and are not likely to do so, the point remains a moot one.