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It was at a kind of veld tavern in the Orange Free State, a shanty in the grass-country between Driepoort and Kroonfontein, where travellers can get a bad lodging, and bad liquor, and worse company. 'Trekkers Plaats' they call the place now. But when my friend was there it was known as the 'Free State Hotel."
"A veld hotel in the Orange Free State a wretched shanty of the usual corrugated-iron and mud-wall type, in the grass country between Driepoort and Kroonfontein." He heard the wraith of his own voice speaking to the dead woman who lay under the blossoming irises at his feet. He saw her with the mental vision quite clearly.
Saxham glanced at Major Bingo with eyes that seemed to have been bleached of colour, and laid the second calligraphic specimen beside the first, and took up No. 3, and read in the same large nourishing round hand: "W. BOUGH, "Free State Hotel, "50 m. from Driepoort, "Orange Free State." After that the silence was intense.
He bowed assent, biting the short hairs of his moustache in vexation and embarrassment. "Hardly an hotel a wretched shanty of the usual corrugated-iron and mud-wall type, in the cattle-grazing country between Driepoort and Kroonfontein. And it seems my fate to be continually bringing our conversation back to a most unhappy and painful theme." "I acquit you of the intention to pain or wound.
Had she not interrupted, she must have cried out. She said: "You tell me this man Bough is at Diamond Town?" "I said he was there when I left. The young woman he talked of was brought up at his place in Orange Free State, a nice respectable boarding-house and hotel for travelling families on the veld between Driepoort and Kroonfontein.
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