ith cuts."

"Yes, I've made the old gun do her duty. She has tried her hand at
several kinds of things, and has settled Amakosa, Zulus, and all; and
what do you think besides, Hans?"

"Lions in numbers, I suppose."

"Yes, that is true; but this one mark is for a white man. Not for a
true Africander, but an English-Dutch fellow. This gun shot him, and
well he deserved it."

"How was that?" inquired all the party, to whom the information was
news.

"I'll tell you here, for we are friends; but don't mention it again, for
few people know it, and I might not be liked by some people for having
done what I did, though in my heart I feel I was right, and according to
the laws of war I was right; still I don't want it talked about. Have I
all your promises?"

"Yes," was the universal reply.

"Well, then, it was when the Amakosa had been beaten back from Graham's
Town, that I, who was in the town at the time, saw a fellow half clothed
among the Kaffirs. I watched this fellow for some time, and when the
Kaffirs rushed on and fought bravely, this fellow stayed behind, and
only urged them on. The more I looked, the more certain I was that the
fellow was a white man, rubbed over with something to disguise his skin;
but I knew the walk and look of the fellow, and fancied if I should see
him again, I should know him. We beat the Kaffirs off, as you know, and
they lost hundreds in the battle. I stayed in Graham's Town for some
days, but was going down to Algoa Bay in a short time, when, as I was
going to a store, who should I see before me but a fellow whose walk I
could swear to. It was the fellow I'd seen with the Kaffirs.

"He walked on and turned into the store, so I followed him, and found
him buying powder and lead. I waited till he had gone, when I inquired
of the owner of the store who he was.

"`He's an officer's servant,' said the owner.

"`Have you ever seen him before?' I asked.

"`Never,' he replied; `but he told me he was an officer's servant.'

"I bought what I wanted, and then went out, and seeing the man walking
on before me, I quickened my pace, went to my house, got my gun, and
traced him to a low Hottentot house. Having seen him housed, I
suspected at once he would wait there till dark, and then go off
somewhere; so I set watch, and sure enough it was no sooner dark than
out he came, and walked right away out of the town, and away over the
hills.

"I followed him cautiously, but more than