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Er, um, because the people dying of Ebola in West Africa are black?

"Um, that's better," admitted Grace, while the girls craned their necks for a better view of the horseman.

Kano's transient flowers were grown, for the most part in pots, and these his daughter Um-ko loved to tend.

Um-ko and her father were well known at the temple, and worshipped often before its golden altars.

She peered at first into Um's room for there, indeed, lay the core of old Mata's heart.

Kano heard a man's deep tones, Mata's thin voice answering an enquiry, and then the soft murmur of Um's words.