Red neck was the derogatory term for the newly arrived Englishman whoseneck was inflamed by the sun. Hehooked his finger through the firing ring of the grenade. But his belly,gorged with meat, swung weightily at each stride as though he wereheavily pregnant. No! She shook her headvehemently, but he went on remorselessly.
Through the night and allthe following day they ran on northwards across great spaces bleached bythe sun, with blue mountains traced in darker blue against the deserthorizons. Yet her anger fuelled her, and when she saw the galvanized ironroofs of the mine buildings shining in the sun her weariness droppedaway. Nobody comeshere. He wonderedhow Sarah, Aunt Trudi and the girls would fare now, but he found itdifficult to think or concentrate, for despair had unmanned him, and heknew the terror of a hunted and wounded animal.
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