So they too were out of the slaughter, for, Allan, many, many have been killed--they say five or six hundred, most of them women and children.

But thank God! many more escaped, since the men came in from the other camps farther off and from their shooting parties, and drove away the Zulus, killing them by scores." "Are your father and Pereira here now ?" I asked.
"No, Allan.

They learned of the massacre and that the Zulus were all gone yesterday morning.

Also they got the bad news that Retief and everyone with him had been killed at Dingaan's town, it is said through the treachery of the English, who arranged with Dingaan that he should kill them." "That is false," I said; "but go on." "Then, Allan, they came and told me that I was a widow like many other women--I who had never been a wife.

Allan, Hernan said that I should not grieve for you, as you deserved your fate, since you had been caught in your own snare, being one of those who had betrayed the Boers.