Why not join our cause?
It is just." West looked the Boer full in the eyes, thinking the while that the man spoke in all sincerity and belief that his cause was right.
"Well, what do you say ?" cried the Boer.
West tightened his lips and shook his head.
The Boer frowned and turned to Ingleborough.
"Well," he said, "you join us, and you will not repent.

Prove faithful, and you will gain a place of trust among us!" West listened for his comrade's reply.
"Oh, I can't join without him," said Ingleborough.

"He's master, and I'm only man!" "Then he was bearer of the despatch--what that man Anson said was true ?" "Oh yes, that part of his story was true enough." "That you were despatch-riders on the way to Mafeking--you two ?" "Quite right." "And you two had been diamond-dealers, and brought away a quantity ?" "Just as many, as we schoolboys used to say, as you could put in your eye with the point of a needle.

All a lie! Anson was putting his own case.

All we brought away was the despatch." "Then where is it ?" said the Boer sharply.
"I don't know; I was not the bearer," said Ingleborough quietly, "But you know where it is now ?" "I--do--not," said Ingleborough firmly.