Litchfield enquirer., 1877-11-08
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 takihg al6Ae SOdfasgE HesWlgns Is ~ 'peeted hneh ind ioseRiglst At bha lafeats "a. m Ss 1onid travel xery quick atgeE rsaphg .. ;..s. t6s fsss sss emeSEs. where his '6Eses oi ,ea ,eaaI Ia bSs9 ssS ba iiNs6R fam to s1mmiAh 'TheIB0e{so E1s0lt tea litb IaAaib hiss lRstlEnio .theik iWagnns were bleaasd already Puf uifsd notliing in partieulars called them home: Drink enough they had, and besides al.S z were used t0 the intOzlCating tsxsl.Hs esn' .ths KaEhF2 sd they prepared foRA time 09I
 idle iOkty.1o such aeHrekateer dreaded ,v.
 above every mood of his savage patFOa
 can nndefstaiid tIiat they made tAig Gsssos'
 vous Oid man othsir batte q and a bue 499ita the ..fbuRhesH ofalk times in the sTE4nefi ia yaal! Treksteer asked leave to Ylslt nlA parents in the kl0Qf and his master e..S him Ia We6k. Th8 Khllfe had noslASzl z.. - z
 ara Il theif catble 6ff their fen!llIes sfc1 a I4he t0tuQeTA HlRu tuAs HAtfoA O.-- - ~ - fhe Aancef paSAso: GTh9 spot. of Ooutses sW9Dn nal hfF3hc salich "a B0ys and Ssteess Ans cotIid dsFent wftlf q reasonable hOpSo bof, success. But the space was not en0ugn
 to feed some thousands of cattle, and very
 hard work it proved to keep the poor
 beasts alive. The boys would take out no
 more than few hundreds at time, though
 tnev howled to see their darling creatures get thinner day by day. A Kafir loves
 his children. but his very soul IS moved
 by the loss of an OK. Before the Doctors
 leave expired. still greater vigilance was
 introduced. Military order prevailed,
 sentries were strengthened into pickees, and the garrison slept upon it's arms. So
 Treksteer concluded that his friends
 would be making more 1ovialr time ot 1t than commOn.4 He himself received the
 kindest treatment, especially after 1t came
 out that he; was not an Africander. The
 old chief who commanded told him again
 and again not to fear. for he had healed their sick. and Kafirs never forgot ser.
 vice. My friends experience did not quite confirm the general principle, but
 he felt easy in this case. ft....e Days passed by, and Treksteer's leave came to an end. Upon the morning fixed for his return he rose before daylight, but
 the camp had long been astir. When the Doctor left his hut he found that all the l women had retired into the kL00f itself. l Up to this time they had lived in rude shanties inst outside its mouth. trusting | for safety to the sentinels who stood on each hill top between their refuge and the
 kraal But the fires were all gray beneath
 the ashes in that gray and chilly dawn. | Not a soul answerered to the Doctors
 shout, Rough walls, ,interlapplng, guard
 ed the kLoof, and the space between l through which alone entrance could be made-had been filled with thorn. bushes | during the night. It would have been ea- l sy to scale the slopes on either hand, but Treksteer had seen too much of Kaifirs to
 attempt it. Low lying mists hung there, and the coarse. e.herbags was white as with frost. But through the steam and the
 untrodden grass fierce eyes were watch. | ing. 50 stealthilY and noiselessly does
 the Kafir begin war. sa b9ysie f1sE Es Treksteer knew what all this meant be- 1 fore observing his horse tethered by the 1 door. The old men and women did not | dare to warn him unauthorized. He mounted and rode over the VeLdt: A pale | fresh light spread from the east. Pres- entity, long streamers shot acrosc the sky,
 descending rapidly. The sun rose, not 1 misty as with us, but eager, thirsty, dag zling. It's beams licked his face like fire, I and threw long blue shadow that rode l with him over the dew-white. grass. Un- moiested the Doctor went, through lands
 utterly unpeopled Go all seeming. But he knew his lonely course was marked from | ee1e to eerie. Six or seven miles on the l hack<trail there was another ELoof to tray erse. A picket of warriors had its station there, as the Doctor Knew. 4a All was still
 as he approached. but at the xarY en- | trance Kaffir challenged him. He stop ped dead, and presently appeared an un. | der-chief, who turned the Doctor back
 with kindly frmness. A young warrior accompanied him to the ktoof. No news could be drawn from chief or subaltern, but Treksteer guessed who the enemy
 might be. He rode back, not unconsoled,
 and upon due authority the refugees re- ceived him with hearty goodwill
 Three or four days passed without alarm, and thenF Feelipautze arrived. Prep
 arations began at once for breaking up the
 camp-not too soon, for the cattle were
 nearly starved. The chief felt a visible
 embarrassment in talking with his guest. | He first denied any war, at all, then made 1 solemn oath that the white men had not been concerned in it. But not in vain had Treksteer passed twenty years in the will | derness. He lald his hand upon the Kali | frs diamond, and swose him by that great fetish. Feelipautze, broke of in a rage, and rode home, Treeksteer following. ] Arrived at the kraal, he sought his friends | encampment, which had evidently been ] deserted for many days. No signs of fight lay around. The wagon track ran
 northward. and Treksteer's experience told him that the camp had been shifted leis- l usely, without alarm. He did not think
 it prudent to follow, but returned to Fee l hpsutze and asked information The fenc- ing and diplomacy, not to mention the ly- ing, on both sides, cannot tell, but it
 lasted matter of ten days, and no doubt
 it was most ingenious. In the end, Trek
 steer made desperate resolution. He l '.sWors" EmboOndas life upon his vas sails fetish. No Kafirs were present, or | such treason would have cost the life of both. Feelipautze, his eyes starting, and
 gray with superstltious fear, asked what the Doctor wanted, To recover his own efeets, and no more, had Treksteer set this awful machinery in movement! And
 Feelipautze promised to let him have bthen. s...., .,, ,.. -.-. This story was told me in the dark. u up. pS.' on the poop of the good ship Mefsey, q Fhomewafd b0nnd from the Cape. The a
 Doctor gayeitjnIa 8 language uptanihaEs without gEacea of style. aud ID lsones hur-, ried and nefvoua I had lately gone l through adventures of my own, and each Pof our comfades gambling in the saloon helow could have recoHnted some stranga We were rather 6LGsS with | that sort of thing in the Diamohd Fields 2 [ But theinext chapter of Che Doctors ataIsf thrilled me.mIihad been impatient fOrgiks end, burning to, ask more .dstails rabOut | the situation of that marsh Ibuk II had
 not expected a catastrophe 50 dramatic. a uTreksteer and the ehisf went alOus nezk
 day. An honr's r.ds brought them b q
 solitary bill, 2 lost kop, ,as the boers would say. Ski ting 1t. they came npon . little | lake, snff0Hhdsd by trees Boon l6ltefs ward the, WGg0n-lraek was hit, aud then, fsuddenIY. a thorn.isnce rose before khana..-