The lines of naked black men shuffled forward under the paternal eyes ofthe boss-boys, who treated them in a friendly jocular fashion. Within minutes UncleTromp had rigged the complicated contraption. Now there were four riders in the fleeing band, for the horse herderfrom the fountain had joined them and they were leading a spare horseeach. It was thesize and shape of a small suitcase, but of japanned steel with a brasslock.
Manfred dropped hischin, and his eyes changed. At the entrance to the farthest hut the onlyman in the kraal sat on a low carved stool. More than once he nearly ran out of road asthe jag snarled and screeched through the turns, but it was fullyfifteen minutes before he d snatched a close-fought victory from his Nationalistopponent, Centaine saw all her ambitions for hi-in becoming reality.
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