that case you had better slip back to the farm."

"Ah, it will not be that!" Mrs Robb answered with confidence. "We
deserve a better reward than that, and I feel sure that God will see us
through this trouble safely. May He permit us to reach the English camp
with your friends, and may He in His goodness grant that my poor husband
be restored to me!"

"Amen, amen!" Jack and Guy answered huskily.

"Now it is time to be moving on, Guy," said Jack, and, linking arms once
more, they left their shelter and pushed on without a halt till they
reached the base of the hill.

It was rough and boulder-strewn, and had extremely steep sides. Its
summit was faintly defined against the star-lit sky, and, looking up,
the two young fellows fancied that they could make out the form of a
gun.

"Now we will leave you here, Mrs Robb," Jack said, "but we must first
find some place in which you can hide. Let us move along here to the
left."

Cautiously creeping through the grass and bushes, and in and out amongst
the boulders, it was some time before they came across a likely spot.
But at last they plunged into a dense growth of mimosa bush and fern,
and this they decided would form a suitable hiding-place.

Jack handed the child to its mother, and placed the bundle by her side.
Then he whispered: "Wait here for us, and remember, do not answer any
other signal than the one agreed upon. Good-bye! I hope we shall be
back soon."

"Good-bye! oh, good-bye, you two brave boys!" Mrs Robb whispered.

With a hasty shake of the hand Jack and Guy left this brave and
tender-hearted woman kneeling on the veldt, with the child held in her
arms, and her lips moving as she offered up an earnest prayer for their
safety.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN.

SAVED FROM AN AWFUL FATE.

"Let us stop here a few moments, Guy," said Jack, when the two had
advanced some twenty yards from the mimosa clump in which they had left
Mrs Robb and her infant to wait for them. "That is evidently the gun
up there at the top, and tied to the wheels are, I suppose, Mr Hunter
and your father. Now how are we going to rescue them! It isn't likely
that the Boers will have left them unguarded. You can see for yourself
that there is a camp away there on the left, for their fires are burning
brightly. And in addition to the men there within easy call, there are
certainly others near the gun."

"Yes, there are sure to be pickets close to the top, for the garrison of
La