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ed-headed Seena began to snicker, for if there had been any Van Doorn who was not wayward, it was Hendrik. It’s not like you make it sound. With her daughter married, Annatjie's concern turned to little Sarel, whose reticence had worried her from cradle days. It would always be a contradictory place, a walled fortress town perched on the edge of a jungle

' Annatjie, against her children's advice, rose to supervise fields while Geertruyd worked with Sarel: 'It all depends upon you, my dearest friend. “Goshawk Hall?” he asked. For a moment she stood in the doorway and looked about. 'He kept on till he reached a stream where kingfishers flashed blue as they dived toward crystal water, and when he saw the good pastures nearby, he knew he had reached his temporary home.