"Oh yes! rather; of course; that goes without saying," cheerfully assented Grosvenor. "But, I say, Dick, old chap," he continued, "you have astonished me to-day, fairly taken my breath away; I hadn't the slightest notion that you were such a swell at your profession as you have just proved yourself to be. Never saw anything like it in my life before, y'know, and couldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Why, I wouldn't have given three ha'pence for that Kafir's life when I first set eyes upon him; but now, dash it all, I believe you're going to set him on his feet again. If you do, your fame will spread far and wide through the country, and do us a lot of good. But, I say, it was a jolly lucky thing for you that the poor chap dropped off into that sound sleep just when he did, eh? Because it enabled you to do several things that, it seems to me, you couldn't possibly have done had he remained awake. What puzzles me is that he continued to sleep all through it. And I noticed that you didn't seem to worry in the least about whether you awoke him or not. I suppose it was sleep, was it not?" "Oh yes!" answered Dick airily; "it was sleep, right enough; nothing in the nature of swoon about it, if that is what you mean. But now, what about those lions? My patient will sleep for several hours to come, and I can quite well leave him. It is now,"--consulting his watch--"only a few minutes past eleven o'clock, and we ought to be able to organise the hunt and bag the beasts comfortably before tiffin. Are you game?" "You bet I am, rather!" responded Grosvenor. "It is just what I was itching to suggest, but I thought it would seem callous to propose that you should leave your patient, and it would not have been sporting to have proposed to go off alone, leaving you behind." "Oh, that is all right!" returned Dick confidently; "my patient will not need me for hours yet, so let us see about it at once. Where is Jantje?" Jantje was close at their elbows, and already "putting on side" among the villagers upon the strength of being in the service of an _'mkulu 'mtagati_. He stepped forward at the question and answered, with an air of proud humility: "I'se here, sar. What you please to want?"