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That way we shall get back to Natal in a few days and avoid all danger . '' The others agreed that this would be a capital plan ; and the distance by the road , which they had crossed a few miles to the south , and which runs from Lorenzo Marques up to Ladysdorp and the Murchison and Klein Lemba gold-fields , would not be above seventy miles . They would wait till daybreak showed them the amount of damage that had been done , and then start , and would be down at Lorenzo Marques in the evening , when , even if the news of the explosion reached the town , the Boers ' suspicions that some Englishmen were in the hills , and that it was probably their work , would not be known . Not until ten o'clock was a move made . Then they took up the packages of dynamite , and , accompanied by Jack , made their way noiselessly down to the railway yard . Here they separated . Chris , aided by Jack , carried the big packets for the large guns and for the eight smaller ones .