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taken water out to the road when a truck stopped and the driver called for something to drink. The truck driver was of a different tribe but seemed nice. He stopped again the next week, and after much teasing he had given her a string of beads. Then he had offered to take her with him to Bangui to live. Moco herself had been shocked with his plan, but the following days had been more miser able than ever. Last night her hus band had found the beads. The third wife told him how she had seen Moco talking to the truck driver. In anger her husband had beaten her before the whole village. Now today she was exiled to the cotton field alone. Sara’s mind tumbled with thought. Had she not thought of running away once herself? Then she had become a Christian. God had provided peace and happiness. Her plans had been only unhappy dreaming. Moco’s danger was real. Looking at her miser able friend she could not be silent. “This truck driver is probably a very bad man. He will take you only to leave you in some strange village without help from your family or friends.” To Sara’s distress her friend began to cry. “ Oh, I couldn’t be more unhappy!” Taking Moco’s hand Sara said: “ But you could be happier! Going away won’t make you happy, but becoming a Christian will.” Quietly Sara told Moco about each happiness she had since becoming a Christian. Moco only shook her head and said it was too late. “ If I had believed before I was married, I could have ‘escaped’ as you did. But even God cannot make me happy now.” Sara could think of nothing else to say to her friend. They rose and went back toward the village. A gust of dry wind brought the sound of an ap proaching truck to their ears. The girls stood listening till they knew that it was slowing to a stop in front of the village. Moco broke into a run, but Sara begged her friend not to go. They broke through the grass and into the village in time to see the dusty truck roll to a stop. A young boy dropped from the top of the load to put a board against the back wheel. A tall middle-aged man got out of the truck. He wore clothes like a white man and a white man’s cigarette hung from his lips. He caught sight of the girls and waved them over. Sara gave a spit of disgust and turned to run to the house of her aunt. Lean ing against the veranda pole she began to cry. Join us next month along the African trail.
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