“And I want to ask you whether you think he could take the foreloper’s place as well?”
“Well, sir,” said the man, with a grim smile, “he doesn’t look much like one, certainly, and I don’t believe he knows anything about it.”
“But couldn’t you train him?”
“Oh, yes, I could train him, sir. I don’t think the beasts would take to him all at once, but it seems to me the queshtun is would he do it?”
“I shall make that the condition as to his staying,” said the doctor firmly.
Chapter Twelve.
In Mid-Veldt.
“I know what I shall do,” said Dean, as they prepared for their morning start, during which he had been thoughtfully watching the helpful way in which their new attendant loaded the ponies, over which he seemed to have the most perfect command.