They were children, Hendrick realized, though their age and sex wereobscure. Shasa flung himself out of the saddle, his face flushed with exertionand frustration and anger and shouted at his chief groom. Hold your anger. At four in the morning they wereled back into town on bleeding feet and with their throats chafed rawfrom the coarse hemp
she had said, but her fingers werestroking and caressing, and all rational thought ebbed out of his mind. The police inspector came back to where they stood in a smalldisconsolate group. Come back to thishouse! Manfred nodded. The threemembers of the strike committee filed into Centaine's office, and shestared at them for fully three minutes without speaking.
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