Jess

Chapter 22

ON THE ROAD

John and Jess had finished their meal, and were about to leave the

table, when suddenly the door opened, and who should appear at it but

Frank Muller himself! Mistake was impossible; there he stood, stroking

his long golden beard, as big, as handsome, and, to Jess's mind, as

evil-looking as ever. The cold eyes fell upon John with a glance of

recognition, and something like a smile began to play around the corners

of the finely cut cruel mouth. Suddenly, however, his gaze lit upon the

two Boers, one of whom was picking his teeth with a steel fork and

the other lighting his pipe within a few inches of Jess's head, and

instantly his face grew stern and angry.

"Did I not tell you two men," he said, "that you were not to eat with

the prisoners?"--this word struck awkward