Estate Living Magazine Invest SA - Issue 41 May 2019 | Page 65

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Forgetting his tiredness, he abandoned the mail coach and dashed
into the floodwater to save a young girl clinging to a branch. He
pulled her to shore, left her in the mud, and returned for an elderly
man struggling to stay afloat in his long white nightshirt. Again and
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It was at about that moment that Johannes had arrived at the small
town, tired, cold and hungry. He had been hoping for a hot meal,
a drink and a good night’s sleep before delivering the mail in the
morning, and then continuing on to the Diamond Fields. But when
he heard the screams and the crashing, rock-filled torrent, he had
urged the horses on for the final stretch into the town.
kissed her that afternoon, whispering that soon she would be his
wife. A wave of desire washed over her but, before she could be
totally swept away, she was rudely brought back to reality by a sharp
crack, followed by a spine-chilling scream and a roar that shook the
foundations of the house. She jumped up and ran towards the door.
Too late. She was swept away – but not by passion – by a towering
pitch-black wall of water, rocks and logs that crashed into and
through the house, and carried her downstream like a broken doll.
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