CHAPTER X.VROUW PRINSLOO SPEAKS HER MIND.
Now, when the Hottentot's story was finished a discussion arose.

Marais said that someone must go to see whether his nephew still lived, to which the other Boers replied "Ja" in an indifferent voice.

Then the Vrouw Prinsloo took up her parable.
She remarked, as she had done before, that in her judgment Hernan Pereira was "a stinkcat and a sneak," who had tried to desert them in their trouble, and by the judgment of a just God had got into trouble himself.

Personally, she wished that the lion had taken him instead of the worthy Hottentot, although it gave her a higher opinion of lions to conclude that it had not done so, because if it did it thought it would have been poisoned.

Well, her view was that it would be just as well to let that traitor lie upon the bed which he had made.