The chief said then that he should have to send another despatch back to Kimberley, and that he should ask us to take it." "What a cracker!" cried Ingleborough.
"Cracker--lie?
I declare he did!" "I don't believe you." "Very well!" said West stiffly.
"No; it is not very well! Come now, he didn't say anything about _us_.
He said you.

Confess: the truth!" West began to hesitate.
"He--well--perhaps not exactly in the words I said." "That will do, sir!" cried Ingleborough.

"You are convicted of cramming--of making up a fictitious account of the interview.

He did not allude to me." "But he meant to include you, of course!" "No, he did not, Noll; he meant you." "I say he meant both of us.

If he did not, I shan't go!" "What!" "I shall not go a step out of the way without my comrade!" "What!" cried Ingleborough, holding out his hand.