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les traveling behind it. At the wheel, Piet��s eyes survey the countryside, hoping to see some game in the area; he thinks

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y happy to accept cash, after all, this vehicle was high-jacked in South Africa and driven across the border and business was booming, although that was a small detail t

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renovate the house and make it livable again. Along with a gang of laborers that Piet had rounded up to do the m

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bush veldt. They could see a few dilapidated outbuildings near the house but apart from that, nothing but bush. Adele feels a tremor run up her spine, is it a prickle of fear or excitement she feeling? She glanced at David to check his reaction to what they were seeing. He feels her gaze

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n only stayed there for three months before moving off. He had been unable to sell the fa

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rted on the house and the air smells fresh and clean. She has had her first bush shower this evening, a ten-gallon bucket with holes in the bottom suspended from th

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y at the cooking fire preparing supper. She listens to the chatter of the laborers as they busy thems

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r seen back in London Adele closes her eyes just drifting along with the smells

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her out here, she��s safe and content. The meal arrives, pap and vleis as Piet calls it, it smells good and suddenly she reali

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ogether, none of the local okes wanted the job. All these guys come from another district, maybe they

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ghost stories tonight, Adele and I are bushed

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ved back to town and these now grow wild but there��s a troop of baboons that live on the kopje behind you, and

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of man that still lingers in t

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nd. It��s long gone, no there��s something about the place that does not feel right but I

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tivity going on, maybe th

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it would be perfect for the weaver to nest here but look around nothing. Oh, and one

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undly to the sound of crickets and frogs. Adele��s

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