y-eight years old, short, rumpled, unshaven, poorly dressed, and with a pitiful little mustache that made his upper lip tremble when he talked. ' 'Are you spying out the enemyT one of the young fellows asked. Tjaart was untouched, but he found to his dismay that during the attack Theunis Nel had taken two serious stabs. At school he betrayed not a single indication of his disappoint- ment; if anything, he treated Detlev with added consideration, which was natural, since this boy was one of the best.
'My GodV he whispered. He was broad, in all respects. We must keep con- stant pressure on them to accord us the same privileges they grant native-born New Zealanders and Australians. Those Afrikaner pioneer had paid a terrible price for a foothold in this land, and they ha done it in order to be free.
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