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I sent you one of the finest young women this world could produce, and what in hell do you do but leave her and go off to some pile of rubble in what they call Rhodesia. ' He wiped his forehead and sat down. It was composed of three Englishmen at whose side Tjaart had fought in the Xhosa war, and two of them were his special friends: Saltwood and Carleton. In the gloom the two women stared at the vacant lot, and again Laura was tempted to turn back and ask

' It was the first time she referred to the family with which her own was so sorely enmeshed, and she said no more. stown, where triumphal arches lauded him as the victor of the frontier, the subduer of the rebellion. He was a strange mixture, an esteemed commando leader from a Hugue- not family, but also a reckless business adventurer who seemed destined to overreach himself. But no Sybilla.