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They rode through the open forest below the cliffs, and their mood wascarefree and gay with anticipation of the days that lay ahead. Neither of them could any longer support the fullweight of a man, but one carried the water bottles and Lothar used theother as a crutch. AlreadyI have seen the first restlessness in you. The huts were of tarpaper and old corrugated iron sheets and roughthatch and in front of each squatted dejected clusters of men and women.

I tell you, boys, you don't know what you've let yourselves in for. On one side he had Lothar De La Rey andhis threat. Lothar had seen him stand down the charge of a woundedbull elephant, but he was afraid now. Amongst the black mineworkers who had worked out their Wenela contract and were returninghome, there wer