...14Benham sat at a table in the smoking-room of the Sherborough Hotelat Johannesburg and told of these things. White watched him from anarmchair. And as he listened he noted again the intensification ofBenham's face, the darkness under his brows, the pallor of his skin, thetouch of red in his eyes.
Figure us! We were bound hand and foot, fagged and filthy; our beards twoinches long, our faces scratched and bloody. Cavor you must imagine in hisknickerbockers (torn in several places by the bayonet... read more
