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She had broughtout a young designer from Paris to redecorate the carriage in the ArtDeco style, which was all the rage, and he had been worth every penny ofhis fee. He shook hands with the Ou Baas respectfully and glowed with pleasure athis quiet commendation, Good work you are doing, Kerel. But before he couldrespond to her warning there was a thud as though a sack of wheat hadbeen dropped on a stone floor. Then theywalked back to the hut.

It's our place now, Blaine. The people that were retrenched from this mine last month were giventhree months pay in lieu of notice, she said, Three times more than theywere entitled to, you know that. He found it strange but reassuring that the few white officials that heencountered on the long slow journey back to South West Africa, seldomlooked at him directly. Against the surrounding thorn bushes crude sun-shelters of thatchhad been erected, and the bushes were festoo