' 'That was done long ago,' Marius said, and when he joined th young people in a beer, Saltwood asked ' 'Is he bright?' 647 'Average, like all of us. 'I'll tell you what we'll do, Detleef. Philip wasted niuch of his leisure time at the diggings trying to fathom why-above all else-the men at Vrymeer were so devas- tated by the cancellation of the New Zealand tour.
But what happens? He walks in here bold as brass, and my office gives him an identity card stating that he was white. This wouldn't have been necessary if the English had kept people properly separated, but once those first fatal steps of intermixing occurred, the damage was done. ' By what specific steps this would be accom plished he did not know, for he considered himself inadequate t lead. is my friend, Philip Saltwood, the American geologist who is highly respected by his workmen at Swartstroom.
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