ifted it and Hansmeyer fired two shots into the air todraw the attention of the marksmen on the kopje. They were our diamonds. The second flare ignited, shooting out long tongues of redflame from under the driving wheels, but by now the locomotive wa d shelter, and he fell onto his knees besidethe mattress of papyrus fronds and lowered her gently onto the blanketthat covered it.
The door beside her burst open just as the Daimler roared out of thecutting into the river-bed and Centaine was hurled out through it. Did you see who did it? he gasped. He was conscious only of the hands and the murmured endearments andpraise, then he was aware of something else, a warm musky odour waftedup from her belly against which his face was pressed. Her cheekbones seemed to gleam through the pale skin, and there werechiselled lines of exhaustion at the corners of her mouth.
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