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The desert south of Klipdam Farm, German South West Africa, 1906Blake crossed the border under the cover of darkness. Beside him rode Dawie, the young Nama man who worked for Rassie. Blake needed him to help keep the fifty horses they trailed under control, and then to take the cattle they expected to collect from the Boer, du Preez, back to Upington.
Blake would not be returning to the Cape Colony.
Blake had taken the gold that Jakob Morengo owed him – Claire’s gold – and some of her remaining stash from her farm, and used half of it to buy the fifty new horses. The remainder would pay for the cattle du Preez would sell him. When the deal with the Boers was done Blake and Dawie would part company and Dawie would take the cattle to Upington and deliver them to Morengo at
