" So we set off, and walked along the vlei back to the King's waggons. It was quite light now, and they saw us from the skerms all the way along, but they just looked at us and we at them, and so we went along. We walked because the horses hadn't a canter in them, and there was no hurry anyway. " At the waggons we halted, and shouted in again about not wanting to kill anyone. There was a pause, and then came shouts and a volley. Afterwards it was said that somebody answered : 'If you don't want to kill, we do.' My horse jumped away to the right at the volley, and took me almost into the arms of some Natives who came running from that side. A big induna blazed at me, missed me, and then fumbled at his belt for another cartridge. It was not a proper bandolier he had on, and as I got my horse steady and threw my rifle down to cover him he suddenly let the cartridge be, and lifted an assegai. Just as his arm was poised I fired, and hit him in the chest ; he dropped. All happened in a moment. The next thing I knew was retreating, and seeing two horses down, and Wilson shouting to somebody to cut -off the saddle-pockets, which carried extra ammunition. Ingram picked up one of the dismounted men behind him, Captain Fitzgerald the other. The most ammunition

The identity of the writer of ' The Strike of a Sex,' the article in the current * Quar terly' dealing with Mrs Sarah Grand's 'Heavenly Twins' and Mrs Humphry Wards ' Marcella,' is exciting a good deal of interest. The virulence of the attack on the former and the warmth of eulogy be stowed otr fche latter have induced some people to look for the writer among Mrs Ward's entourage. The same hand that penned the attack In the* Quarterly ' is held responsible for the boycott set up against Mrs Sarah GraiidV in 'The Times.' Who can it be I aaks the ' Literary World.'

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