‘How do you know?’ ‘I’ll show you.’ She took an old shoebox from her desk-drawer. ‘Have a look at this. This is what Pieter gave me when he brought me Oom Petrus’s books.’ Huddled on a cushion of wood-fibre inside it were two ceramic figurines, both resembling some of the drawings in Sir Roberts book. Gingerly I picked up the pear-shaped one. It looked like a pregnant female, somewhat like the prehistoric Venus of Willendorf. ‘That looks like the one Dad found,’ Roxy said. ‘It came from Krantzhoek. Pieter made a lewd suggestion about it.’ ‘Yeah,’ I nodded, ‘he always used to have a one-track mind.’ ‘He still has,’ Roxy sighed, ‘Well anyway – I put both females ones on display and Frankel bought one of them.’ ‘And that other one?’
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