... Textile Pageant Committee on the very day his nephew, separated from his wife, tells him he wants to be divorced, marry a local woman, sell his half-share in the mill to a rival, and emigrate to South Africa. Since others involved are also on the committee ...

... will leave home, marry, and work on his own. The girl is killed as she rushes across a road to escape being raped by a local, womanizing doctor and as the boy carries her body back to lay it between the feet of the statue of God, his despair is complete ...