“By Jove, Alston! you don’t mean that!”
“Mean it? of course I do. The proclamation does not specify any particular offence to which pardon is to be denied, and you have lived more than six months on Transvaal territory. Off you go!”
And Ernest went like an arrow.
CHAPTER XI.
FOUND WANTING
Ernest reached the Government office and registered his name, and in due course received “her Majesty’s gracious pardon and indemnity from and against all actions, proceedings, and prosecutions at law, having arisen, arising, or to arise, by whomsoever undertaken, &c., conveyed through his Excellency the Administrator of Our said territory of the Transvaal.”
When this precious document was in his pocket, Ernest thought that he now for the first time fully realised what must be the feelings of a slav
