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"He was a long way off from our place," said Mr. Hoopdriver. "We had
a little ostrich farm, you know--Just a few hundred of 'em, out
Johannesburg way."
"On the Karroo--was it called?"
"That's the term. Some of it was freehold though. Luckily. We got along
very well in the old days.--But there's no ostriches on that farm now."
He had a diamond mine in his head, just at the moment, but he stopped
and left a little to the girl's imagination. Besides which it had
occurred to him with a kind of shock that he was lying.
"
What became of the ostriches?"
"We sold 'em off, when we parted with the farm. Do you mind if I have
another cigarette? That was when I was quite a little chap, you know,
that we had this ostrich farm."
"Did you have Blacks and Boers about you?"
"
Lots," said Mr. Hoopdriver, striking a match on his instep and
beginning to feel hot at the new responsibility he had brought upon
himself.
"
How interesting! Do you know, I've never been out of England except to
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