Let's go to him at once." We descended after another look at the Boer lines, and found the Colonel resting against a block of granite, with his injured leg lying in a bed of sand.

He listened attentively, after Denham's introduction, to all I had to say.

Then he sat in perfect silence, frowning, and tugging at his long moustache.

I was as uncomfortable as ever I had been, and wished I had not come; but soon a change came over me, for the Colonel spoke.
"Capital," he said sharply.

"But--" My hopes went down to zero again, but rose as he went on, taking the right line of thought: "It can only be done by sheer bravado.