As for me and Allan, we have other things to see to, so you must pray a little harder to cover us as well as yourselves.

Now you come along, nephew Allan, or that liver may be overdone and give you indigestion, which is worse for shooting than even bad temper.

No, not another word.

If you try to speak any more, Henri Marais, I will box your ears," and she lifted a hand like a leg of mutton, then, as Marais retreated before her, seized me by the collar as though I were a naughty boy and led me away to the wagons..