A Veldt Official: A Novel Of Circumstance

Now where the very mischief is Doppersdorp? He who thus uttered his thoughts aloud looked up from the sheet of paper in his hand, and gazed forth over the blue waters of Algoa Bay. Over the vessels riding at their anchorage his gaze wandered, over the stately hulls of two or three large mail steamships similar to that upon whose deck he then stood; over the tall, tapering masts and web-like rigging of numerous sailing craft; over the flotilla of cargo-boats and lighters; over the low, sandy shores and sunbaked buildings of busy, dusty Port Elizabeth, right away to the bold ridges of the Winterhoek range looming black and hazy to the blue heavens; then returned to re-peruse the large official communication. Thus it began:

• | Author: Bertram Mitford
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 150 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1519274297
• | ISBN-13: 9781519274298