He saw his people as the children of Israel, and Southern Africa as thepromised land flowing with milk and honey. Her densedark plume of hair was unmistakable, and she wore yellow silk anddiamonds, elegant and poised; he hated her so strongly that he couldtaste it in his mouth, like gall and alum. I love you, he said simply, and her tears choked her and she flungherself against his chest and held him with all her strength. Lothar had been both father and mother to the boy from the very day ofhis birth.
The bullet was lying just under the skin, it did not appear to havepenetrated the chest cavity. 'You'llwant a rest and clean up, I expect. I have togo on as far as the gangrene will let me, for Manie's sake. Lothar felt elated; the adrenalin of violence was like a drug in hisblood still and the open desert lay ahead of him.
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