I only know that were I your age and not burdened with a daughter to watch over, _I_ should go." "Why should you talk to me thus ?" I asked with indignation.

"Why do you not go yourself, seeing that I am quite ready to look after Marie ?" (Here the Vrouw Prinsloo and the other Boers tittered.) "And why do you not address your remarks to these other heeren instead of to me, seeing that they are the friends and trek-companions of your nephew ?" At this point the male Prinsloos and Meyer found that they had business elsewhere.
"It is for you to judge, yet remember, Allan, that it is an awful thing to appear before our Maker with the blood of a fellow creature upon our hands.

But if you and these other hard-hearted men will not go, I at my age, and weak as I am with all that I have suffered, will go myself." "Good," said Vrouw Prinsloo; "that is the best way out of it.

You will soon get sick of the journey, Heer Marais, and we shall see no more of the stinkcat." Marais rose in a resigned fashion, for he never deigned to argue with Vrouw Prinsloo, who was too many for him, and said: "Farewell, Marie.

If I do not return, you will remember my wishes, and my will may be found between the first leaves of our Holy Book.