The driver, the guard and the fireman were tied securely and locked inthe guard's van while the loading of explosives went on smoothly andswiftly. He wonderedhow Sarah, Aunt Trudi and the girls would fare now, but he found itdifficult to think or concentrate, for despair had unmanned him, and heknew the terror of a hunted and wounded animal. And now, the general roused them from where theysprawled, satiated, on the bank of the tiny burbling stream, land nowfor the main business of the day. One of the men we are following is sick, Centaine answered quickly.
He is right. But I am going to tell you something now and you'd betterremember it. Manfred could not answer; his throat was closed with excitement, but henodded vigorously and Uncle Tromp went on in his normal piercing tones. len fromthe Transvaal had been brought down so heavily that he had broken hiswrist and dislocated his shoulder.
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