But she doesn=t forgot that he=s a native, she hates him as native. He can read and write and he does his work perfect. At any time, Mary has strucked him in his face with a whip. Moses is an high developed, English speaking seasonal worker. She hates the black population, the farmer=s life and Dick the misfit.Īfter she has sent the hundredth (black) houseboy away, there=s Moses. Dick falls ill and Mary has to run the farm. She runs away to the town, but after a while she comes back. After failed projects with bees, pigs and turkeys, Dick starts a store and Mary has to serve the natives. She=s lonely and the life on the farm is monotonous. Her marriage to Dick isn=t a succes and she is very unhappy. The life reminds her to her own poor youth. Complete inprepared and unaware of the life on a farm, she arrives. She rushes into marriage with Dick Turner, a poor farmer of a distant farm. She waked up to the fact that she was on her way to become an old maid. She lived a lighthearted life in the town till she was thirty.
In the next chapter the story goes back to the past. It is thought he was in search of valuables.Ī young Englishman who is just in Africa, and who was stayed with the Turners has his ideas, but he hold his peace.
The houseboy has been arrested and he had confessed to the crime. It starts with a newspaper report Mary Turner, wife of the farmer Richard Turner was found murdered. The first chapter of the book is a flash-forward.