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CHAPTER VIII
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It is enough that he is dead, and for his daughter's sake the less the circumstances of his end are examined into the better." "Poor Heda!" he said again, "who will tell her?
I can't.

_You_ found him, Allan." "I expected that job would be my share of the business, Anscombe.
Well, the sooner it is over the better.

Now dress yourself and come on to the stoep." Then I left him and next minute met Heda's fat, half-breed maid, a stupid but good sort of a woman who was called Kaatje, emerging from her mistress's room with a jug, to fetch hot water, I suppose.
"Kaatje," I said, "go back and tell the Missie Heda that I want to speak to her as soon as I can.

Never mind the hot water, but stop and help her to dress." She began to grumble a little in a good-natured way, but something in my eye stopped her and she went back into the room.
Ten minutes later Heda was by my side.
"What is it, Mr.Quatermain ?" she asked.

"I feel sure that something dreadful has happened." "It has, my dear," I answered, "that is, if death is dreadful.
Your father died last night." "Oh!" she said, "oh!" and sank back on to the seat.
"Bear up," I went on, "we must all die one day, and he had reached the full age of man." "But I loved him," she moaned.


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