19/41 You see I knew that Botha couldn't long keep out of the war. Well, I got into German territory all right, and then a _skellum_ of an officer came along, and commandeered all my mules, and wanted to commandeer me with them for his fool army. He was a very ugly man with a yellow face.' Peter filled a deep pipe from a kudu-skin pouch. I shot him--not so as to kill, but to wound badly. It was all right, for he fired first on me. |