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Meredith : 3rd Day
Minutes later we’re zooming up the on-ramp and back onto the national route. The road drones on and on. We’re passing through built up areas now. Traffic lights. Roundabouts. Crossroads with four-way stops. Up onto a freeway. Down again. Residential areas and shopping malls whizz past in the dark. We’re moving up market. We turn down a street lined with mansions set back from the road. Many of the gardens are hidden behind tall walls and iron gates. A hundred yards along, Johnson slows and turns in. Mbuga jumps out to speak into the voice box at the side of the gate. The gates inch open. As soon as the gap is wide enough, Johnson drives through and up the long drive. Although the streetlights were out, the drive is well lit and there are security lights all around t
