In that town he found they had left the cart, and bought a spider and four greys, and Gregory's heart rejoiced.

Now indeed it would be easy to trace their course.

And he turned his steps northward.
At the farmhouses where he stopped the ooms and tantes remembered clearly the spider with its four grey horses.

At one place the Boer-wife told how the tall, blue-eyed Englishman had bought milk, and asked the way to the next farm.

At the next farm the Englishman had bought a bunch of flowers, and given half a crown for them to the little girl.