________________________________________________________________________ The hero of the story is Edward Laurence, an 18-year-old living on a farm in South Africa. The date is in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. The boy is sent off on a shopping expedition which will take several days, but when he gets back he finds that there has been an attack on the farm, his father and mother are dead, and all the stock has been taken away. He goes to the neighbouring farm, and finds that the same applies there, except that he realises that the young 12-year old daughter, Nell, has been taken away alive. Edward's father had always spent the profits on improving the breeding-stock, so Edwar…
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