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School was just over. The boys belonging to Arlingford College poured out into the playing fields, the juniors tumbling over one another in haste and confusion, as though the premises were on fire behind them; the seniors strolling leisurely out, or gathering in small groups n...
School was just over. The boys belonging to Arlingford College poured out into the playing fields, the juniors tumbling over one another in haste and confusion, as though the pr...
2. CHAPTER TWO.The _Zulu Queen_ had cleared the Channel and the Bay of Biscay, and was somewhere about abreast of Lisbon, when Redgy Margetts came on deck to join his friend Rivers. The latter...
3. CHAPTER THREE."Nature must have intended this island for a prison," remarked Miss Vander Heyden, as she looked up at the inaccessible precipices by which Saint Helena is environed. "Nothing b...
4. CHAPTER FOUR."There cannot be a doubt of it," he said. "My lads," he continued, advancing towards a number of men who were gathered in a confused huddle on the forecastle, "I have a few word...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.The sailors who had remained loyal to Captain Ranken obeyed his summons with prompt alacrity. They were reduced to seven, three having gone with the first mate in the pinnace. T...
6. CHAPTER SIX.About a week had elapsed. George and Redgy were standing on the deck of the Government steamer Wasp, leaning over the bulwarks and contemplating the appearance of the harbour of...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN."Well, Mr Rivers," began Farmer Baylen, "I don't know why I shouldn't gratify your fancy. It is certain that I and mine have been a long time in the colony, and know pretty well...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT."What is to be our next halting-place?" asked George of Ernest Baylen, as they rode out in the rear of the party on the following morning, having waited behind to see that none...
9. CHAPTER NINE."Mr Baylen," he said, "I was much interested in the history you gave us the other day of the colony, and King Chaka and his brother Dingaan. But all that you told us occurred fo...
10. CHAPTER TEN.Baylen returned to the pastor's house too late to impart any of the information he had received to the rest of the family; and, besides, he judged it better that they should all...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Mr Bilderjik rode up to his brother pastor's abode, by whom he and his young friends were very kindly received, and they were all invited to enter his parlour; where, considerab...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE."Up and bestir yourself, Redgy!" cried George, entering the tent, which Margetts shared with Wilhelm Baylen, a few days afterwards. "Cetewayo's time was up last night, and he ha...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.The morning of the 22nd of January broke calm and clear on the valley of the Buffalo. At one end of this, as the reader has heard, was situated the ford of Rorke's Drift, to whi...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.A long interval had passed since the occurrence of the events recorded in the last chapter. It was now July, the depth of the southern winter. Although Zululand is on the border...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.The waggons had stopped for the night, the oxen were outspanned, and the native servants were engaged in knee-haltering their masters' horses, which were then turned into the ve...
16. CHAPTER SIXTEEN.The dawn was only just beginning to dapple the skies, when the voice of Henryk Vander Heyden was heard rousing his Hottentots and superintending the inspanning of the oxen and t...
17. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN."I should like to ask you, sir," said Margetts after a pause, "the rights about the presence of the larger animals--wild animals, I mean-- in these parts. In Zululand, which is...
18. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.Nearly a week had passed, and the cortege was again setting out from Heidelberg, where it had arrived three days previously. Lieutenant Evetts greeted his old companions in arms...
19. CHAPTER NINETEEN."Ah, you wonder to see me here! I had no intention of leaving home when we parted, but I was summoned to Heidelberg two days afterwards, and was on my way to Mr Evetts when Mr M...
20. CHAPTER TWENTY.George awoke chilled and cramped with the night air, and was preparing leisurely to get up and commence the search after his missing steed, when his eye lit on an object a few f...
21. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE."Here is a letter for you, George," said Mrs Mansen, as the former entered the parlour at Umtongo, about three months after his arrival at his mother's house. "It looks like Mr...
22. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO.It was a Sunday evening late in December, about nine months after the departure of George Rivers and his friend from Umtongo. George, who wore a suit of clerical black, had just...
23. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE.Rivers and Margetts hurried down the steep descent without pausing to pick their way, and reached the bottom just as the traveller, whose horse was evidently tired out, passed t...
24. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR.It seemed as if Hardy's anticipations were going to be fulfilled. For more than a fortnight after the disaster on the banks of the Ingogo, both armies remained quietly in their...