A Secret of the Lebombo
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Mitford Bertram. A Secret of the Lebombo
Chapter One. The Sheep-Stealers
Chapter Two. Lalanté
Chapter Three “Light Through the Gloom…”
Chapter Four “I will not let him go.”
Chapter Five. Rebellion
Chapter Six. What they did not find
Chapter Seven. A Scare – And a Home Circle
Chapter Eight. The “Word in Private.”
Chapter Nine “Number One.”
Chapter Ten. In the Third Kloof
Chapter Eleven. Dreams – and a Visit
Chapter Twelve. Farewell!
Chapter Thirteen. Bully Rawson – General Ruffian
Chapter Fourteen. What Hlabulana Revealed
Chapter Fifteen. Mnyamana’s Cattle
Chapter Sixteen. The Refugee
Chapter Seventeen. Nearing the Goal
Chapter Eighteen. Entering the Toils
Chapter Nineteen. Warren’s Opportunity
Chapter Twenty. In the Roar of the Flood
Chapter Twenty One “Take Care of him.”
Chapter Twenty Two. The Opal
Chapter Twenty Three. Of the Hostile Usutus
Chapter Twenty Four “The Hornets’ Nest.”
Chapter Twenty Five “Jealousy is Cruel as the Grave.”
Chapter Twenty Six. Warren’s News
Chapter Twenty Seven. The Snake-Doctor
Chapter Twenty Eight. Hunted
Chapter Twenty Nine. The Secret of the Lebombo
Chapter Thirty “In the Morning.”
Chapter Thirty One. Envoi
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Riding slowly home Wyvern’s thoughts took on no more cheerful a vein as he looked round upon his farm, which would soon be his no longer. It never ought to have been his at all. He had started by paying far too much for it. He had been struck by the pleasant situation of the place, and was determined to have it at all costs. Further, it was bad veldt, being, in stock-farming parlance, “boer-ed out,” that is to say exhausted. It required years of rest what time he took it up, but Wyvern started about three thousand sheep upon it, and contentedly, though unconsciously, prepared to watch their decimation. It came. He had put his little all into the venture, and now his little all was fast approaching vanishing point.
He reached home, off-saddled his horse, and turned the animal loose into an enclosure. By the time he had done so, and entered the house, the episode of the sheep “slaag-ing” had almost faded from his mind. The excitement of the discovery and the struggle past now, in the light of more serious matter the incident seemed of small importance.
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“That’s right. Now, what have you been doing with yourself?”
“The latest is that I had a sort of adventure this morning. I caught Sixpence ‘slaag-ing,’ caught him red-handed. There was another schelm in it with him.” And he told her the whole incident.
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