Many accepted the invitation, and it was their treason that eventually cost the Boers the war. Our host had a name for those men. Hensoppers.
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Here was this woman, seventy years after the fact, worshiping a maniac.
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He stepped inside and saw, to his right, Isabel’s wizened body slouched in a rocker beside the hearth, a bullet hole in the head.
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There’s not a day that goes by I don’t think of her. I wake up at night and hear her calling for me through that fire. It’s haunted me in ways I never understood.” He paused. “Until today.”
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He shrugged. “Those chutes weren’t like when you and I went through them. She’d better have good lungs.” “As I recall, she did.”
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“No sign of the she-devil.”
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“Still defiant to authority?”
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The House adjourned.
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Halfway, he encountered the first bloated corpse.
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“Shackle both prisoners,” he ordered. “And gag them.”