CHAPTER XXXVI. 

DESERTED. 





That was almost the last thing Granville Kelmscott knew. Some strange shadowy dreams, to be sure, disturbed the lethargy into which he fell soon after; but they were intermittent and indefinite. He was vaguely aware of being lifted with gentle care into somebody's arms, and of the somebody staggering along with him, not without considerable difficulty, over the rough stony ground of that South African plateau. He remembered also, as in a trance, some sound of angry voices--a loud expostulation--a hasty palaver--a long slow pause--a gradual sense of reconciliation and friendliness--during all which, as far as he could recover the circumstances afterwards, he must have been extended on the earth, with his back propped against a great ledge of jutting rock, and his head hanging listless on his sinking breast. Thenceforward all was blank, or just dimly perceived at long intervals between delirium and unconsciousness. He was ill for many days, where or how he knew not. 

In some half dreamy way, he was aware too, now and again, of strange voices by his side, strange faces tending him. But they were black faces, all, and the voices spoke in deep guttural tones, unlike even the clicks and harsh Bantu jerks with which he had grown so familiar in eighteen months among the Barolong. This that he heard now, or seemed to hear in his delirium, like distant sounds of water, was a wholly different and very much harsher tongue--the tongue of the Namaquas, in fact, though Granville was far too ill and too drowsy just then to think of reasoning about it or classifying it in any way. All he knew for the moment was that sometimes, when he turned round feebly on his bed of straw, and asked for drink or help in a faltering voice, no white man appeared to answer his summons. Black, faces all--black, black, and unfamiliar. Very intermittently he was conscious of a faint sense of loneliness. He knew not why. But he thought he could guess. Guy Waring had deserted him!  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Did someone have a brush with death?
2. Did someone nearly lose their life?
3. Was there someone who came quite close to perishing?
Q2:
1. Who almost died?
2. Who had a brush with death?
3. Who came close to dying?
Q3:
1. Was Granville Kelmscott saved?
2. Did someone save Granville Kelmscott?
3. Did Granville Kelmscott get rescued?
Q4:
1. Who rescued Granville Kelmscott?
2. Who saved Granville Kelmscott?
3. Who was Granville Kelmscott resuscitated by?
Q5:
1. Were Granville Kelmscott's saviors known to him?
2. Had Granville Kelmscott already met the people who saved him?
3. Were the people that rescued him familiar to Granville Kelmscott?
Q6:
1. Did someone desert Granville Kelmscott?
2. Was Granville Kelmscott deserted by anybody?
3. Did someone leave Granville Kelmscott behind?
Q7:
1. Who deserted Granville Kelmscott?
2. Who did Granville Kelmscott get left behind by?
3. Who was Granville Kelmscott abandoned by?
Q8:
1. Why did Granville Kelmscott get abaondoned by Guy Waring?
2. What was Guy Waring's reason for deserting Granville Kelmscott?
3. For what reason did Guy Waring choose to desert Granville Kelmscott?
Q9:
1. Did Granville Kelmscott hear any noise?
2. Was Granville Kelmscott aware of any sounds?
3. Was anything audible to Granville Kelmscott?
Q10:
1. What did Granville Kelmscott hear?
2. What sound was Granville Kelmscott aware of?
3. What was audible to Granville Kelmscott?
