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White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume One Creative Writing Component: Excerpted Chapters from Volume Three Appendix OneBeltana, South Australia, 22nd December 1935Mounted Constable Rosewall has enjoyed his morning ride on PH Equality, and estimates hehas covered a good six miles going between the town and the railway station several times.All quiet, needless to say. He is looking forward to his Sunday lunch at the hotel.He hears a skittering on the verandah of the police station, and a rather red faced childholding a push bike at a precarious angle pushes open the door.‘Phone call for you at the station. Ma says its urgent.’ The child lowers his voice and hiseyes get a conspiratorial gleam to them. ‘Somebody might be dead. Want me to get the horsefor you?’‘That won’t be necessary. Tell her I’ll be there very soon.’ Make that six and a half milesfor Police Horse Equality, then, he thinks.Copley, 2001Rosy’s round face becomes mournful, and she holds her hands still and looks off to the hillsthat stand watch over Copley.Jim Page: they cried for him when he passed away. Yes, my mother and father [were]working on the property there too, Blinman way. When they told them, the boss comeround [and said] ‘Mr. Page died.’ They cried, you can’t make them stop their crying. Yes,I was just watching. We didn’t know all about it. That was it…They ringed up andsomeone told the boss ‘He died’ and them – mothers and all – cried, on aSunday…Nyanga Mr Page. 188Hawker 2001Ken’s expression hardens:128