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Chicken and tongue sandwiches and jam roly-poly, he checked thecontents. ling in his cravat, diamond rings on thefingers of both his hands, a top hat over his dark Semitic curls, Her father's relationship with Centaine Courtney troubled hermore than she could ever tell him. Amongst the black mineworkers who had worked out their Wenela contract and were returninghome, there wer

Leading them was Vark Jan', or Pig John', the old Khoisan warrior withhis yellow wrinkled features that bespoke his mixed lineage of Nama andBerg-dama and, so he boasted, of even the true Bushman. Roelf had been releasedat the same time as Uncle Tromp and had returned to his job at theuniversity. She glanced at them. She had found the sounds and odours and sights associatedwith it all repellent, the stench of rancid sweat on canvas and leather,th