hore, and of slipping away from the woman who was with her, and
therefore also she begged the milk and the biltong.

Now before I go further I would ask, What was this dream of Suzanne's?
Did she invent it after the things to which it pointed had come to pass,
or was it verily a vision sent by God to the pure heart of a little
child, as aforetime He sent a vision to the heart of the infant Samuel?
Let each solve the riddle as he will, only, if it were nothing but an
imagination, why did she take the milk and food? Because we had been
talking on that evening of her finding a brother by the sea, you may
answer. Well, perhaps so; let each solve the riddle as he will.

When Suzanne escaped from her nurse she struck inland, and thus it
happened that her feet left no spoor upon the hard, dry veldt. Soon she
found that the kloof she sought was further off than she thought for,
or, perhaps, she lost her way to it, for the hillsides are scarred with
such kloofs, and it might well chance that a child would mistake one for
the other. Still she went on, though she grew frightened in the lonely
wilderness, where great bucks sprang up at her feet and baboons barked
at her as they clambered from rock to rock. On she went, stopping only
once or twice to drink a little of the milk and eat some food, till,
towards sunset, she found the kloof of which she had dreamed. For a
while she wandered about in it, following the banks of a stream, till
at length, as she passed a dense clump of mimosa bushes, she heard the
faint sound of a child's voice--the very voice of her dream. Now she
stopped, and turning to the right, pushed her way through the mimosas,
and there beyond them was a dell, and in the centre of the dell a large
flat rock, and on the rock a boy praying, the rays of the setting sun
shining in his golden, tangled hair. She went to the child and spoke to
him, but he could not understand our tongue, nor could she understand
his. Then she drew out what was left of the bottle of milk and some meal
cakes and gave them to him, and he ate and drank greedily.

By this time the sun was down, and as they did not dare to move in the
dark, the children sat together on the rock, clasped in each other's
arms for warmth, and as they sat they saw yellow eyes staring at them
through the gloom, and heard strange snoring sounds, and were afraid. At
length the moon rose, and in its first rays they perceived standing and
walking within a few paces of t