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Blue Aloes, by Cynthia Stockley
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Title: Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
Author: Cynthia Stockley
Release Date: September 10, 2007 [eBook #22568]
Language: English
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BLUE ALOES
Stories Of South Africa
by
CYNTHIA STOCKLEY
Author of "Poppy," "Wild Honey," etc.
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press 1919
Copyright, 1919 by Cynthia Stockley
CONTENTS
BLUE ALOES
THE LEOPARD
ROSANNE OZANNE
APRIL FOLLY
Blue Aloes
The Strange Story of a Karoo Farm
PART I
Night, with the sinister, brooding peace of the desert, enwrapped the land, and the inmates of the old Karoo farm had long been at rest; but it was an hour when strange tree-creatures cry with the voices of human beings, and stealthy velvet-footed things prowl through places forbidden by day, and not all who rested at Blue Aloes were sleeping.
Christine Chaine, wakeful and nervous, listening to the night sounds, found them far more distracting than any the day could produce. Above the breathing of the three children sleeping near her in the big room, the buzz of a moth-beetle against the ceiling, and the far-off ho