For a few more hours the officers on Spion Kop held their positions, but finally one of the finest commanders signaled a retreat. ' 'You think they'll triumphT Sannie asked contemptuously. ' Towering over Detlev, he pointed a lo finger at him: 'And you will be responsible. ' At the mention of Nachtmaal, Tjaart thought hungrily of that exquisite girl, but he stopped when he became aware that some- one near him was sobbing.
' 'Verdomp! We'll show them. ' He ended superbly, looking with flashing eye at his listeners, as to challenge each one personally: 'in the time of ' He was standing at the big window, looking off toward the lake and the striations left around its sides by the drought. A government build- ing was dynamited and fourteen soldiers were killed.
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