We told Conrad how alarmed we had been by Murara and Serundori’s accounts of simply going out and mowing down the local poachers, and he sat back in his chair, kicked up his heels, and roared with laughter. “It’s incredible what these guys will tell the tourists! I bet they told you they were ex-commandos as well, didn’t they?” We admitted, rather sheepishly, that they had. Conrad clasped his hand to his brow and shook his head. “The only thing about them that’s ex-commando,” he said, “is their uniforms. They buy them off the commandos. The commandos sell them to buy food because they hardly
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