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Updated: May 29, 2025
The sun was not yet up, and the air was cold with frost, for they were on the Transvaal high-veld at the end of winter. Even through her thick cloak Benita shivered and called to the driver of the waggon, who also acted as cook, and whose blanket-draped form she could see bending over a fire into which he was blowing life, to make haste with the coffee.
The teams trotted off, blanket-draped, toward the gymnasium, the substitutes trailing along behind, and the stand broke into excited discussion of the game. So far the honours had been fairly even, although toward the end of the second period the ball had remained in Claflin territory most of the time.
I thought that I had not shifted my gaze from the house for more than an instant; but now, as I watched the door, I learned, and not for the first time, that a white man should have a score of eyes instead of two when it comes to watching an Indian. For the commandant's door suddenly opened, and out came a blanket-draped, skin-clad figure. My muscles stiffened. It was the Englishman.
"An' between you an' me," his gaze drifted over the blanket-draped windlass, "it's a pretty good-looking town-site." "But Bill wants some," Smoke said grudgingly, "and we simply won't part with more than five hundred shares." "How much you got to invest?" Wild Water asked Saltman. "Oh, say five thousand. It was all I could scare up."
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