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"Aye," answered the Aood;

he is clever as a weasel; ill have his plan and no other"

So Saduko was overruled andno fires and re still as the

dead in the dense bush It was a very anxious day, for although the

place was so wild and lonely, there was always the fear lest we should

be discovered It was true that we had travelleda spoor, and avoided all kraals; still,

soht have reached the Aht stuht for lost cattle

Indeed, so of this sort did happen, for about ure of a man, who his way through the bush Before he saw

us he was in our midst For a moment he hesitated ere he turned to fly,

and that wane leapt on him

silently as leopards leap upon a buck, and where he stood there he died

Poor fellow! Evidently he had been on a visit to some witch-doctor, for

in his blanket we found medicine and love charms This doctor cannot

have been one of the staht to myself;

at least, he had not warned him that he would never live to dose his

beloved with that foolish medicine

Meanwhile a few of us who had the quickest eyes cliu and the valley that lay between us and

it Soonthat so far, at any rate, Fortune was playing into our