“I will gladly take your offer for my man,” said Brace at last.
“And you yourselves?” said the rajah, eagerly.
Brace turned to us.
“What do you say?” he said.
“I shall follow my captain,” replied Haynes.
“Doctor?”
“I am an Englishman,” he said quietly.
Brace looked at me.
“Vincent!” he said, in a low hurried voice. “We have a painful tramp before us, and in all probability the buggies will not come to meet us. You are young and not used to such work as we have before us. The doctor will give you a few instructions, so you shall stop and look after Denny.”
I don’t know how it was—I make no professions of being brave, but a strange feeling of exaltation came over me then, and I said quickly—