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you had reached MalOpo safely. was
alarmed for your safety, Winton If
l had guessed But now l must tell
you something In tprn. Mr.. De Witt
was here last night"
DE With" cried Winton. "Sheila,
you saw him?"
"No. I heard the horse coming up
the pass. and l could tell from the
clank of the stirrups that it was a
white rider. hid, Winton. I thought
at first it was you. But I watched
from among the rocks and recognized
De Witt l was afraid of him. l
thought he had come to find me. And,
Winton, that Hottentot, who had run
away two days before, was with him.
I recognized him, too. Mr.. De Witt
has great influence among the Totties.
[ don't know what he Is planning"
He is planning to escape, Sheila.
1t was not you that he was seeking.
He Is fugitive, and thinking only of
getting away"
And he told her quickly Of the de-
tails of the trial. But whether he
convinced her or not, his own fears
were aroused for her. He believed
that De Witt planned to take Sheila
with him; he would, OF course. be ig-
norant Of the fact that she knew the
story of her parentage. Somewhere
De Witt was lying in hiding. WintOn
spent very restless night in the hut
next to Sheila's, and when at last the
dawn came, and he called her and she
came out, her eyes heavy with sleep,
but smiling at him, his heart went out
in utter thankfulness.
They saddled their horses and rode
away. During the journey they dis
cussed their plans. They would reach
MalOpo in the afternoon and be mar
ried at once. He would take Sheila
home to the little cottage, and he
would settle up his affairs as fast as
possible and leave the country with
her.
But the program received an unex-
pected setback. A civil marriage was
rendered impossible by Judge Davis
death, and the clergyman, the only
one in Malopo, had gone out for
days bok-shooting, and would not re-
turn till the morrow.
Winton was utterly downcast. Even
the thought of taking the girl into
MalopO, which had used her so badly,
was unbearable. He decided to house
her making tea for him in Burns's cot
tage-Burns having gone back to live
in the boarding house, some little dis
tance away, where he had resided for
merly
After he had settled her there, un-
der Sans protection, he went back
into town and, calling at the police
station, informed the police chief OF
the tragedy.
To his surprise he found himself
the object Of a severe cross-examina
ton. The presence of the vast herd
of springbok was, Of course, known,
but the story appeared incredible.
Winton had been seen riding out
with Judge Davis; the enmity Of the
two men was, of course, a common
place of knowledge The chief of pO-
lice said that he would ride out the
next morning to investigate, and his
manner left little doubt that he sus-
pected Winton OF having caused the
judges death.
With his reception, Winton's second
purpose, Of giving warning concerning
the native unrest, went out of his
head. Malopo had. indeed, been pre-
pared for an outbreak for some time
past, and rumOrs Of all sorts were
!! current; it was not probable that any
action would have been taken on the
story, which would, furthermore, have
led to Sheila's examination. On the
whole, when he remembered his lapse,