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an before them, leading away from her tree, and as the warriors overtook him, each stabbed at him with an assegai. The third sad discovery came always at night. It was interesting, Philip thought, that most of the jokes were told by Afrikaners themselves, and not by Englishm g incantations, begging the spirits to unleash forces that would prepare him for the great role he was about to play.

' Still, he might have resisted her allure had it not been for the added seductiveness of the Mount Nelson Hotel. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. l wood to protect the walls; and finally, cinderblocks to replace everything that had served before. It was four hours before he returned, and his slightest move- ment was watched, especially by older men and women who concerned themselves in such matters.