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She had left Weltevreden at dawn andwas now one hundred and twenty miles north of Cape Town, driving throughthe vast treeless plains of Na He turned away then, and even atthat distance Centaine glimpsed his expression. You'll be in Cape Town for Christmas. He had changed so much since Manfred had returned.

Centaine ignored the protest. He was alone in an enormously blue and empty sky and he was sweatingwith adrenalin reaction. The bristly earstwitched and fluttered like sunbirds wings to the shock of passing shot,and the bull broke his Both women were out of the line of his fire,but he waited until the three robbers re-emerged from the vault, each ofthem lugging a kitbag stuffed with wads of banknotes.