m for a burgher who
has just arrived from Natal in a serious condition, and your comrade
will also be moved to-morrow. Get whatever things you have ready.
There is a cart outside to convey you to a farm on the outskirts of
Pretoria. By right you should be sent to the race-course, where all the
English prisoners are confined, but I managed to get the authorities to
let me keep you here, and afterwards to send you to the farm as a
particular favour. We may not meet again till this terrible war is
over, but then, whoever wins the day, if you come back here ask for me
and I will hand over to you the skin of that lion you helped to slay."

Jack was dismayed at the order, but, recovering from his astonishment,
he managed to stutter out his thanks to the doctor, who had been
exceedingly kind and attentive to him.

"I can never thank you sufficiently, Dr Otto," he said warmly, "and if
I ever return to Pretoria I will certainly look you up and claim the
skin. It is a trophy which I should be very glad to possess."

"Very well, then, my dear young fellow," answered the Boer doctor. "We
will consider the matter as settled. Ah, how I wish this conflict was
over! My heart is not in it. Peace and equality for all is a maxim I
have always considered best for this country. But I am busy. Goodbye!
and I trust we shall meet again some day."

Jack shook hands with him, and then commenced to pack up his few
belongings.

"Don't be down-hearted, Guy," he exclaimed cheerfully. "This separation
is a nuisance, but we are not going to give up our plans. Expect me
to-night; I will tap gently at this window and wait underneath it for
you. If I fail to get away from this farm to-night, I will find out
where you are in the course of a few days, and then you can expect me.
Good-bye, old chap, and keep up your pecker! We are going to get out of
this cage, and together, too!"

"That we will, Jack," Guy answered brightly. "Be sure I shall be ready
when you come along; but if you find that coming for me spoils your own
chances, leave me to get away as best I can and make good your escape."

"I'm going to get out of Pretoria, and you are coming with me or I won't
go at all!" exclaimed Jack stubbornly, and with more excitement than he
was wont to show. "Expect me to-night. It will not be my fault if I
fail to turn up."

Shaking hands with one another, the two young fellows parted, still firm
in their intention to escape if possibl