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to each other in frightened whispers I called Scowl to , Baas," he said with a shamefaced air; "only there are soin and out of it all

night"

"Spooks, you idiot!" I answered "Probably they were people going to

visit the Nyanga, Zikali"

"Perhaps, Baas; only then we do not knohy they should all look like

dead people--princes, some of theht froround"

"Pooh!" I replied "Do you not know the difference between owls in the

s? Make ready, for we trek at once; the air here is

full of fever"

"Certainly, Baas," he said, springing off to obey; and I do not think I

ever reot under way quicker than they were that

I merely mention this nonsense to show that the Black Kloof could affect

other people's nerves as well as u without accident, having sent forward

one of ons arrived

outside the Great Place they were met by none other than ht u