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Meanwhile he learned much, studied the coolie question, investigated mine-workings, was entertained by his old college mates mining experts themselves in Johannesburg. There was the letter telling of the bull fight at Zanzibar, or Delagoa Bay, or some seafaring port thereabouts, that broke his heart, it was such a disappointment "it made a Kappa tea look gory by comparison."
But though Burke drank with him, his face did not relax. A little later they left the hotel together. A strong wind was still blowing, sprinkling the dust of the desert everywhere. They pushed their way against it, striding with heads down through the swirling darkness of the night. Hoffstein's bar was in a low quarter of the town and close to the mine-workings.
She understood; she gave one bitter cry that started an echo from ruined mine-workings hard at hand; then she turned from him, and, in a moment of sheer hopeless misery, flung herself and her wrecked ambitions upon the ground by the wayside. For a moment the man stood scared by this desperate answer to his words.
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