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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: The stranger stood silent looking downward into the fire. Peter Halket
half clasped his arms about his knees.
"My master," he cried, "how can I take this message? The Dutchmen of South
Africa will not listen to me, they will say I am an Englishman. And the
Englishmen will say: 'Who is this fellow who comes preaching peace, peace,
peace? Has he not been a year in the country and he has not a share in a
single company? Can anything he says be worth hearing? If he were a man
of any sense he would have made five thousand pounds at least.' And they
will not listen to me. Give me another labour!"
And the stranger said: "Take a message to one man. Find him, whether he
sleep or wake, whether he eat or drink; and say to him: 'Where are the
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