not see the child from whom the voice came, yet she knew the kloof, for
as it chanced she had been there twice, once with me to gather white
lilies for the burial of a neighbour who had died, and once with her
father, who was searching for a lost ox. Now Suzanne, having lived so
much with her elders, was very quick, and she was sure when she woke in
the morning that if she said anything about her dream we should laugh at
her and should not allow her to go to the place of which she had dreamt.
Therefore it was that she made the plan of seeking for the shells upon
the seashore, and of slipping away from the woman who was with her, and
therefore also she begged the milk and the biltong.

Now before I go further I would ask, What was this dream of Suzanne's?
Did she invent it after the things to which it pointed had come to pass,
or was it verily a vision sent by God to the pure heart of a little
child, as aforetime He sent a vision to the heart of the infant Samuel?
Let each solve the riddle as he will, only, if it were nothing but an
imagination, why did she take the milk and food? Because we had been
talking on that evening of her finding a brother by the sea, you may
answer. Well, perhaps so; let each solve the riddle as he will.

When Suzanne escaped from her nurse she struck inland, and thus it
happened that her feet left no spoor upon the hard, dry veldt. Soon she
found that the kloof she sought was further off than she thought for,
or, perhaps, she lost her way to it, for the hillsides are scarred with
such kloofs, and it might well chance that a child would mistake one for
the other. Still she went on, though she grew frightened in the lonely
wilderness, where great bucks sprang up at her feet and baboons barked
at her as they clambered from rock to rock. On she went, stopping only
once or twice to drink a little of the milk and eat some food, till,
towards sunset, she found the kloof of which she had dreamed. For a