She followed the fresh spoor for a mile, tomake certain that he had not doubled or backtracked. No, Manie, we are going back, back to ovambolandand our brothers of the tribe, where everyone is a friend and we canlive like men and not animals. This world is aplace of harsh reality, and each of us has to face it in his own way. Anaircraft was still a marvelous novelty, able to attract the attention ofeven such a sophisticated gathering as this.
He is full of meat and will go nowto the nearest water. Centaine wore an Australian cattleman's wide-brimmed hat and a kudu-skingilet over her shirt. 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. The moment Blaine had left her, she had looked around desperately tofind Centaine Courtney, her torment only easing a little when she sawCentaine surrounded by admirers higher in the stand.
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