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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: hours ago, a woman whom I know came up to my camp fire and woke me. I
asked her what she was doing at that hour of the night, and she answered
that she had come to tell me something. She said that some young men of
the tribe of the chief Quabie, who lives in the hills yonder, had been
visiting at their kraal, and that a few hours before a messenger had
arrived from the chief saying that they must return at once, as this
morning at dawn he and all his men were going to attack Maraisfontein
and kill everyone in it and take the cattle!"
"Good God!" I ejaculated. "Why?"
"Because, young baas," drawled the Hottentot from the other side of the
window, "because someone from Maraisfontein--I think it was the Vulture"
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