Since then we have heard nothing of him." "Indeed; and how did he propose to get food on the way ?" "He had a rifle, or rather they all three had rifles, and about a hundred charges between them, which escaped the fire." "With a hundred charges of powder carefully used your camp would have been fed for a month, or perhaps two months," I remarked.

"Yet he went away with all of them--to find help ?" "That is so, Allan.

We begged him to stay, but he would not; and, after all, the charges were his own property.

No doubt he thought he acted for the best, especially as Marie would have none of him," Marais added with emphasis.
"Well," I replied, "it seems that it is I who have brought you the help, and not Pereira.

Also, by the way, mynheer, I have brought you the money my father collected on your account, and some L500 of my own, or what is left of it, in goods and gold.