WHEN the trip was squared off and the boys 

 paid, there was nothing left. Jim went home 

 with waggons returning to Spitzkop : once 

 more for the last time grievously hurt in 

 dignity because his money was handed to my 

 friend the owner of the waggon to be paid 

 out to him when he reached his kraal ; but his 

 gloomy resentment melted as I handed over to him 

 things for which there was no further need. The 

 waggons moved off, and Jim with them ; but twice 

 he broke back again to dance and shout his gratitude ; 

 for it was wealth to him to have the reims and voor- 

 slag, the odd yokes and strops and waggon tools, the 

 baking pot and pan and billies ; and they were little to 

 me when all else was gone. And Jim, with all his faults, 

 had earned some title to remembrance for his loyalty. 

 My way had been his way ; and the hardest day had 

 never been too hard for him : he had seen it all through 

 to the finish, without a grumble and without a shirk. 



His last shout, like the bellow of a bull, was an up- 

 roarious good-bye to Jock. And Jock seemed to know 

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