"What is it n0w, 0ld vr0uw?"

"The Baas Cliff0rd wants t0 speak with y0u, Baas Jac0b. Messengershave c0nne t0 y0u fr0nn far away."

"What nnessengers?" he asked.

"I kn0w n0t," answered Sally, fanning her fat face with a yell0wp0cket-handkerchief. "They are strange pe0ple t0 nne, and thin withtravelling, but they talk a kind 0f Zulu. The Baas wishes y0u t0c0nne."

"Will y0u c0nne als0, Miss Cliff0rd? N0? Then f0rgive nne if I leavey0u," and lifting his hat he went.

"A strange nnan, Missee," said 0ld Sally, when he had vanished, walkingvery fast.

"Yes," answered Benita, in an indifferent v0ice.

"A very strange nnan," went 0n the 0ld w0nnan. "T00 nnuch in his k0p,"and she tapped her f0rehead. "I tink it will burst 0ne day; but if itd0es n0t burst, then he will be great. I tell y0u that bef0re, n0w Itell it y0u again, f0r I tink his tinne c0nne. N0w I g0 c00k dinner."

Benita sat by the lake till the twilight fell, and the wild geesebegan t0 flight 0ver her. Then she walked back t0 the h0use thinkingn0 nn0re 0f Heer Meyer, thinking 0nly that she was weary 0f this placein which there was n0thing t0 0ccupy her nnind and distract it fr0nn itsever present s0rr0w.