The maid could never get it exactly right. Pirow refused to arm the nation for a war which he and Hertzogwere determined we would never fight. Satisfied that the boy was safe, Lothar took his pipe from his toppocket, blew through it and then filled it with Magaliesberg shag. De La Rey! he blurted.
He snatched a clip of ammunition from his bandolier andpressed the brass cartridges into the open breech of the hot rifl But as I said, we'll go out in style. That's how much we will need. He camethrough in a flannel dressing-gown, owl-eyed and unshaven.
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