"I say, Val, I would like to go with you." "What! upon such a mad expedition ?" I said.
"Yes.

It doesn't look so mad when you come to think a little more about it.

Look here; I know.

I'll go as a Dutch driver." "You'll stop along with your troop, and I'll ask the chief to let you come to my help in the morning when we're coming along with the wagon-- if--if we carry it off." Denham was silent for a few moments before he said any more.

Then, with a sigh: "Yes, you might do that; but I should have liked to be in the thick of the business." Many of the men went hungry to bed that night, and Denham and I lay talking for long enough before sleep came; but when it did, nothing could have been more restful and refreshing.
We rose at the "Wake up" to find that there had been no alarm in the night, and our first act was to climb to the top of the wall and use a glass, to see that the Boers wore in the same positions, and the outposts were just riding in, so that I had some insight as to the way in which the enemy guarded their front during the night.
"Here, I say, look!" cried Denham suddenly.