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' The Van Doorns took him into their house and showed him where he would sleep. Had one been in the rubble it would have shone so brilliantly in the shadows that he would have spotted it within seconds, but none did. Detleef was twenty-six that year, the father of a boy, the master o a growing farm. ' Then Cilliers climbed upon the carriage on which a belov cannon named Ou Grietjie (Old Gertie

This angered both the Van Valcks, but it was the wife who replied, 'They are substantial. bee dismissed, he caught a cab and hurried to the Mount Nelso Hotel, where Maud Turner had come to greet him. permanent farm at Vrymeer, a six-month home in Cape Town, and a year-round pair of rooms in a Pretoria hotel. rebuke: 'Have you two any idea of the great forces set in motion by the ox wagons? This country is seething with patriotism.