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The Captain : 3rd Night
It’s our second night in Johannesburg. Clara and I are not much closer to finding Merry and Sukey. Yes, we know they were here in Bryanston this morning and yes, we know it’s Kempton who has them. But that’s all. We don’t even know what car he drove to the mall.
What he’s intending to do is a puzzle. He can’t take the girls out of South Africa by air or by sea. Piet says it’ll have to be by road.
“The border posts are not as well-guarded as the airports and harbors. There’s usually only an immigration official with possibly one police constable in support. The only border with a non-Commonwealth country is the northern one with Zimbabwe. And no sane man would take a young woman and child over that border. His best bet would be Namibia, the old South West Afr
