ten o'clock
I do n't suppose they are on this side of the river . They may be going to pull up the railway , or blow up a culvert somewhere between this and Barberton . Four men with their Kaffirs might do that , but they certainly could not damage this bridge . '' At ten o'clock most of the party retired into a small shed a few yards away , but two remained sitting by the fire , and were evidently left on guard , for they kept their rifles close at hand . The lads now crawled away some distance , and then made their way down a steep bank to the river . It was a stream of some size , running with great rapidity , and it did not take them long to decide that it would be impossible to swim out with the cases and place these in such a situation that the explosion would damage the structure . They then moved quietly up to the spot where the end of the last span touched the level ground ; it rested upon a solid wall built into the rock , and ran some forty feet above their heads .