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Thelines of bayonets glittered in the relentless sunlight, and the facesof the waiting men were ruddy with sweat, but not one unhooked awater-bottle from his webbing. They put the camelsto the crossing. The soldiers picked up their wounded comrades and started forwardagain. That filthy river! Rebecca avoided Penrod's eyes, and pulled Amberaway from him.

Of her own accord and without his further guidanceshe moved her feet apart. Penrod put a morsel cautiously into his mouth. At first he thought it might be a fallof rock rattling down the hillside. British South Africa's conquests wereconsolidated under the new nation of Rhodesia, and almost immediatelythe pred