He was the one who understood. They remained strictly aloof, and in the first forty years of their work in mine and field, few Indians married persons of another race. She had never visited the uni- versity, and from the nature of Detleef's few letters she deduced 'This is a white man's country, and to allow those damned Coloureds to vote dilutes our purity.
A brief fourteen years after this day on Spion Kop, young Churchill would find himself in the middle of a much greater war, and in the war cabinet, and in charge of naval operations. It was the Bible that brought Detleef back to reality, and he began thumbing its heavy pages, printed There, deferentially, he went to the back door and informed the black maid who tended it that he had brought her a first-~Iass houseboy. ' This observation surprised her.
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