many were driven in once fed the poor brutes were willing enough to follow the carts and a few days good food such as beings died for lack of � set them in milk again but i am no said it is against my my honour when we cross the bias river again we will talk of scott replied till that day thou and the shall be to the camp if i give the order thus then it is done if the will have it so and he showed how a goat should be while scott stood over him now we will feed them said scott twice a day we will feed them and he bowed his back to the and took a horrible when you have to keep connection unbroken between a restless mother of and a baby who is at the point of death you suffer in all your system but the babies were fed each morning and evening scott would solemnly lift them out one by one from their nest of bags under the cart there were always many who could do no more than breathe and william the conqueror the milk was dropped into their mouths drop by drop with due i when they choked each morning too the were fed and since they would without a leader and since the natives were scott was forced to give up riding and pace slowly at the head of his flocks his step to their weaknesses all this was sufficiently absurd and he felt the absurdity keenly but at least he was saving life and when the women saw that their children did not die they made shift to eat a little of the strange and crawled after the carts blessing the master of the give the women something to live for said scott to himself as he in the dust of a hundred little feet and they hang on somehow this beats william s milk trick all to pieces i shall never live it down though he reached his destination very slowly found that a rice ship had come in from and that stores of were available found also an englishman in charge of the shed and the carts set back to cover the ground he had already passed he left some of the children and half his at the famine shed for this he was not thanked by the who had already more stray babies than he knew what to do with scott s back was to stooping now and he went on with his in addition to the more babies and more were added unto him but now some of the babies wore rags and beads round their wrists or necks a said the william the conqueror as though scott did not know that their mothers hope in to resume them the sooner the better said scott but at the same time he marked with the pride of how this or that little was putting on flesh like a as the carts were emptied he headed for s camp by the railway his arrival to fit in with the dinner hour for it was long since he had eaten at a cloth he had no to make any dramatic entry but an accident of the sunset ordered it that when he had taken off his to get the evening breeze the low light should fall across his forehead and he could not see what was before him while one waiting at the tent door beheld with new eyes a young man beautiful as paris a god in a of golden dust walking slowly at the head of his flocks while at his knee ran small naked but she william in a slate coloured laughed till scott putting the best face he could upon the matter halted his armies and bade her admire the it was an sight but the had been left ages ago with the tea party at station fifteen hundred miles to the north they are coming on nicely said william we ve only and twenty here now the women are beginning to take them away again are you in charge of the babies then mrs jim and i we did n t think of though we ve been trying milk and water william the conqueror any losses more than i care to think of said william with a shudder and you scott said nothing there had been many along his one cannot bum a dead baby � many mothers who had wept when they did not find again the children they had trusted to the care of the government then came out carrying a at which scott looked for he had a beard that he did not love and when they sat down to dinner in the tent he told his tale in few words as it might have been an official report mrs jim from time to time and jim bowed his head but william s grey eyes were on the clean shaven face and it was to her that scott seemed to appeal good for the said william her chin on her hand as she leaned forward among the her cheeks had fallen in and the on her forehead was more prominent than ever but the neck rose as a column from the of the which was the accepted evening dress in camp it was awfully absurd at times said scott you see i did n t know much about or babies they my head off if the tale goes up north let em said william we ve all done work since we came i know jack has this was to s address and the big man smiled your brother s a highly efficient officer william william the conqueror said he and i ve done him the honour of treating him as he deserves i write the confidential reports then you must say that william s worth her weight in 