Had it not been for you, oh! had it not been for you"-- and she glanced at the blood stains on the earthen floor, put her hands before her eyes and shuddered.
"Nonsense, Marie," I answered, taking her hand feebly enough, for I was very weak.

"Anyone else would have done as much, even if they did not love you as I do.

Let us thank God that it was not in vain.

But what is all that noise?
Have the Quabies come back ?" She shook her head.
"No; the Boers have come back from hunting them." "And did they catch them and recover the cattle ?" "Not so.

They only found some wounded men, whom they shot, and the body of Monsieur Leblanc with his head cut off, taken away with other bits of him for medicine, they say to make the warriors brave.