You can be proud of what you have done, he told her, and then oninspiration added, Many people would have died, perhaps even women andlittle children. Who has ruined whom, Centaine? he asked, and she dropped her eyes. Lothar pocketed the pistol, and knelt and lifted the lid. Roelf watched Manfred kneel on the slippery wet rocks anscoop up a double handful of the clear cold water to pour it into hisopen mouth.
Manfred's eyes burned withtears of shame at the insult he had been forced to offer the great manon the high dais. The homestead of the ranch stood on the higher ground beyond the wells,in a plantation of exotic date palms imported from Egypt. At the far end of the pool Blaine had stripped to his breeches and wasknee-deep, scooping water over his head. , The doctor intervened quietly.
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