“It is as I thought,” said he, “the brute is still there. He is watching for us. He wants revenge; and I believe that he’ll have it. We shall be hungry before we get away from here.”
“Where is he?” asked Hendrik.
“At the pool close by, giving himself a shower-bath; but I can see that he keeps constantly turning his eye in this direction.”
“Is he alone?” inquired Arend.
“Yes; the others appear to have gone off. There is only himself by the pool. We have wounded him; but, for all that, he is able to move rapidly about; and we shall have to kill him outright before we can pass him upon the plain.”
To this there was no answer, and, Groot Willem again returning to the rock, all three laid hold of their guns, and prepared to attack the enemy.