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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Well, we understood why you want to have a finger in Rhodesia's pie, you and your various active organisations working in the interests of a Dutch South Africa. Any child could see what such a country would be worth to you. But you won't succeed, my friend.
And all this in spite of the fact that Nature alone had made the hill already impregnable, it being inaccessible on three sides and very difficult of ascent on the fourth. It is one of Rhodesia's mysteries, and one also of its fascinations; those mysteries and fascinations which so far have effectually baffled all efforts to find the clue and read the closed book.
Meryl spoke first, and then she made no allusion to his love of the spot. "I think you were right," she said simply. "Mrs. Grenville must be one of Rhodesia's heroines." "How do you specially mean it?" "I mean it, because one knows there must be times when the isolation is almost unendurable, and when she must long for many of the things of her old life, however much she declares otherwise."
Grenville is evidently one of Rhodesia's heroines." "She is," he answered so simply that Meryl felt a little nonplussed. When they reached the camp Diana had already dismounted and gone into their tent, whither Meryl followed her. "Well," she said, "how did you get on with The Bear? Did he chore you up over anything?" Meryl considered a moment before replying.
It is only a question of time, however, when she will be merged into Southern Rhodesia for, with the passing of the Company, her destiny becomes identical with that of her sister territory. Northern Rhodesia's chief complaint against the Company was that it did not spend any money within her borders.
It was only that, seeing so much more of the Pyms socially than he had been wont to see of anyone, old memories had been awakened. He hoped they would soon go to sleep again, for, in passing, they had taken some of the restfulness out of Rhodesia's far horizons, and fretted the flow of the strong, silent river, with a vague discontent.
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