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-"If that is true," said Commandant Meintjes, as he reined up his horse in the shadow of a small copse of scrubby mimosa and thorn, "the Lord hath surely delivered this foolish man into our hands."
-"Ay, it's true enough; for that I'll vouch," said a man on his right, "for did I not hear it with my own ears when scouting round Mooidorp yesterday? Two of the rooinek officers were talking in the stable in which I had hidden myself, and one said that if the trooper sent up from headquarters with despatches managed to get through he would arrive to-morrow. That would be to-day. And--"