Nor, indeed, did they take any great pains to hunt for them.
Frank Muller was not a popular character, and the fact of a man coming to a mysterious end does not produce any great sensation among a rough people and in rough times.
On the following day, old Silas Croft, Bessie, and John Niel also buried their dead in the little graveyard on the hill-side, and there Jess lies, with some ten feet of earth only between her and the man upon whom she was the instrument of vengeance.

But they never knew this, or even guessed it.

They never knew indeed that she had been near Mooifontein on that awful night.

Nobody knew it except Jantje; and Jantje, haunted by the footfall of the pursuing Boers, was gone from the ken of the white man far into the heart of Central Africa.
"John," said the old man when they had filled in the grave, "this is no country for Englishmen.

Let us go home to England." John bowed his head in assent, for he could not speak.