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Whenthey caught up with the leaders, Centaine smiled at General Smuts. Then he saw her expression and he stopped laughing. He would be hanging back so as not to force the older men to a pacebeyond their strength. Though he had been waiting for it, expecting it, praying for it, stillthe speed and savagery of the attack caught Uncle Tromp off balance.

His tone had filled her with foreboding andshe should have been warned by it, but still the shock of it made herflinch when he said softly: MY wife. He and Tara drove out the thirty miles from Cape Town to this beautifullittle village which nestled at the foot of Sir Lowry's Pass beneath therugged barrier of the Hottentots Holland mountains. She hung the Bonnard in the dining-room and lit it with a chandelierwhich was a shimmering inverted Christmas tree o The Dragon Rapide, a beautiful blueand silver twin-engined aircraft which Shasa had prevailed on her tobuy, co