Blow Yield

by The Weight of Unbelief, Simulacrum · Universitas Scholarium

At a hundred and forty metres the hole was still giving up dust.

It came out of the collar of the casing in a dry grey plume that the compressor drove six metres into the air, where the wind off the Sneeuberg caught it and laid it down across the veld in a long smear, over the stones, over the bitter little bushes of the Karoo that the sheep would not eat even now, over the bonnet of Hester Kotzé's bakkie and the backs of her hands. It was the colour of stale bread. It tasted, when it reached her mouth, of nothing at all: of rock ground so fine that it had stopped being rock and become the absence of everything rock might have held. She had been tasting it since eleven o'clock. She could not make herself stop.

Sakkie Ferreira stood at the controls of the rig with his ear protectors pushed back on his neck, because there was nothing coming up worth listening for, and looked at her across the noise. He did not shake his head. He was a decent man, and had drilled this district for thirty years, and he knew what she was paying for every metre and who was paying her. He only looked, and then looked at the dust, and then looked up the slope towards the farmhouse at Doornkuil, where the old man was standing at the edge of his stoep with his hat in his hands, too far off to see the colour of anything.

She lifted two fingers. Sakkie nodded and throttled the compressor down, and the plume sagged and thinned and fell back into the casing, and the silence came in from the hills like water into a footprint. It was not silence. The windpump by the dry dam was shrieking on its unoiled bearing, turning for no reason, lifting nothing. A bokmakierie called from the thorn and was answered. Lungile Ntshona, Sakkie's offsider, began to break out the rods, and each one came up out of the hole hot and clean and dry, and each one he laid in the rack with a clang that Hester felt in the roots of her teeth.

A hundred and forty metres. A second dry hole. At four hundred and some rand a metre, without the casing, without the site fee, without her own invoice, which she had not yet sent and now would not.

She did not look at the farmhouse. She looked at the ground, at the line of black boulders running away from her up the slope like the spine of something buried, iron-dark, rusted at the edges, each stone as big as a sheep and heavier than a car: the dyke. The magnetometer had found it for her before she ever saw it, a clean hard spike in the trace, four hundred nanotesla above the field, so sharp and so certain that she had felt, standing over it with the instrument on its pole, something that she would never have called faith, because faith was not a word she allowed in her vocabulary, but which had sat in her chest with the same weight. Dolerite. Molten once, a hundred and eighty million years ago, forced up through the shales of the Beaufort like a knife through a stack of paper, and the paper on either side baked hard and brittle and cracked by the heat. Water lived in those cracks. Every textbook said so. Every survey she had ever run in this district said so. Her own doctoral thesis said so, at some length, with figures.

She had sited the first hole on the eastern contact, three metres off the dyke, and it had gone down through baked shale as hard and as tight as a bank vault and found nothing. She had sited the second on the western contact, because the dip of the dyke could have deceived her, and had watched it go down for a hundred and forty metres, and it had found nothing.

The dyke was there. The fractures were not. Or the fractures were there and the water was not, because it had not rained properly on the Camdeboo in four years, and the water that had lived in the cracks had been drawn off by every borehole in the district until the cracks were only cracks. Either way the science was correct. She had applied it correctly. The ground had simply declined to be what she had proved it was.

That was all it was. That was all.

She took off her hat and beat the dust from it against her leg and walked up the slope to tell him.

---

Abraham Lombard was seventy-eight and had been born in the back bedroom of the house in which he would, very probably now, not die. He was a narrow man, gone narrower; the drought had taken the flesh off him the way it took the flesh off his sheep, from the inside outward, so that what remained was all frame. His shirt was ironed. Sannie ironed his shirts every morning with water she would not spare for her own hair. He watched Hester come up the path between the dead roses without moving, and when she stopped at the foot of the stoep steps he spoke first, so that she would not have to.

"Niks nie," he said. Nothing.

"Nothing. I'm sorry, Oom Braam."

He nodded, slowly, as if she had told him something about the weather in another country. "Sakkie must still be paid."

"I'll speak to Sakkie."

"Sakkie must be paid." He turned his hat once in his hands, all the way round, by the brim. "And you also, juffrou. You did the work. The work was good. I watched you do it."

She could not answer that. She did not trust her mouth. The good work lay behind her on the slope, a hundred and forty metres of it, steel-cased and dry as a bone.

Beyond the house the land fell away towards the dam, which was no longer a dam but a shallow bowl of grey clay crazed into plates, each plate curled at the edges like old paint, with the skeleton of a heron lying in the middle of it where it had come to fish and found nothing and stayed. Beyond the dam the camps went on to the foot of the koppies, empty; he had sold the last of the Merinos in the winter, and the Angoras before that, and the four cattle that had been Sannie's before that. What remained was a handful of ewes in the kraal by the house, kept alive on bought lucerne and on water that the municipal tanker brought out from Graaff-Reinet once a fortnight, when it came, and stored in the green plastic tank beside the kitchen. She had heard him rap the tank with his knuckles that morning, as she drove in. Every farmer in the district did it now, the way a man touches his pocket to know that his wallet is still there. The tank had answered him hollow almost to the ground.

"There is one more thing we could try," she heard herself say. "A resistivity profile north of the koppie. I'd have to bring the equipment from town. Two days."

"And then another hole."

"Then another hole. If it shows anything."

He looked at her. His eyes were very pale, the pale of a man who had spent seven decades squinting into this light, and they were kind, and the kindness was unbearable.

"Your oupa," he said, "was Fanie Kotzé. From Kendrew side."

She had known that he would say it. She had known it since he telephoned her in August, since he gave his name and the name of the farm and she heard in his voice that he knew whose granddaughter he was calling; she had known it on every one of the eleven days she had walked his land with her instrument, and on every one of them he had not said it, and she had come, against every instinct, to believe that he never would.

"My grandfather is dead, Oom."

"I know. I was at the funeral. You were there. You were a little thing with a white ribbon." He put his hat on, which in that household was the sign that a conversation had become business. "He found the water on this farm. In my father's time. The windmill by the dam, the one that is singing there now. He walked with his stick and he said, hier, and they dug, and she gave water for sixty years. Sixty years, juffrou. Through 'sixty-seven and 'eighty-three. She only went dry last summer."

"Oom Braam."

"I'm not asking you nothing. I'm telling you what is."

"You are asking me." It came out harder than she intended, and she saw it strike him, and could not take it back. "You've been asking me since August. That's why you called me and not the firm in Cradock. It wasn't the magnetometer you wanted. It was my hands."

He did not deny it. He stood on his stoep in his ironed shirt with his hat on and let her say it, and she understood, with a clarity like the cold that comes off a stone at night, that he had never once believed in her magnetometer, and had paid for two holes of it anyway, a hundred and sixty thousand rand of his last money, out of courtesy. So that she would not have to be asked. So that she could find his water with her science, if she was able, and never have to know that he had been waiting all along for her to fail.

"There's nothing in my hands," she said. "There never was. Ask anybody who knows anything."

"Ja," said Abraham Lombard. "I'm asking you."

---

She was nine years old and her grandfather had cut a fork from the peach tree beside the kitchen at Kendrew with his pocket knife, and stripped the leaves from it, and put it into her hands.

She remembered the knife. It had a bone handle worn yellow and a blade sharpened so many times that it was thin as a fingernail and curved like a new moon. She remembered the sap, sticky, and the smell of it, green and bitter. She remembered the way he folded her fingers round the two arms of the fork, palms upward, thumbs outward, the point of the fork held up level before her like the prow of a boat; and his voice, rough as a wool bale, telling her not to hold it hard and not to hold it soft, and not to think about anything at all.

She had thought about nothing at all. She had been nine. She had walked across the yard behind the shearing shed with the fork held out in front of her and the dust warm under her bare feet and the whole family on the stoep watching and laughing, her uncles, her father, the Xhosa women from the cottages who had come to see Oupa Fanie's grandchild, and she had felt foolish and important at once, and had wanted, more than she had ever wanted anything, to do it right.

And between one step and the next the fork had turned.

Not dipped. Not nodded. Turned: wrenched itself downward in her grip with a force so sudden and so savage that it was as though somebody under the ground had seized the point of it and pulled. She had held on, because he had told her to hold on. She had held on so hard that the twisting bark tore loose in her fists and the green wood beneath it skinned the palms of both her hands, and she had stood there in the yard with the fork pointing straight down at the earth between her feet and blood on the peach wood, screaming.

Nobody laughed after that. She remembered the silence of the stoep more clearly than she remembered the pain. Her grandfather had come down the steps to her slowly and taken the fork out of her hands and looked at the place where it had turned and then looked at her, and in his face there had been something she was too young to name and old enough, now, to name exactly, and wished she could not. It was not pride. It was pity. He had looked at her the way a man looks at a child into whose arms he has just put something too heavy to carry and which can never be put down.

They had sunk a well there the following winter. It had given water. It was giving water still, as far as she knew; she had not been back to Kendrew in nineteen years.

She had read her way out. That was the only way she knew how to leave anything. At Stellenbosch, in the second year, in a library cold as a church, she had found William Carpenter's paper of 1852 on what he called ideomotor action, the movements a body makes on its own account in response to an idea held in the mind, below the reach of the will; and then the table-turning experiments, and Faraday's little apparatus with its levers and its card, by which he had shown that the sitters at the séance table pushed it themselves and would swear on their mothers' graves that they had not; and then the trials in a barn near Munich, the water in a pipe on the floor below moved at random between runs, and the dowsers, chosen as the best of some five hundred, doing on the whole no better than chance. She had read every word. She had sat in that cold library with the journals open before her and felt the thing she had carried since she was nine years old lift off her chest, and she had wept, which she had not done since the funeral, because it was not true. Nothing had pulled. Her own wrists had turned the fork, out of her own wish to please an old man, and the old man had seen water where he expected it and the well had found it, as wells in that valley mostly did, and there was nothing in her hands. Nothing. She was free.

She had built a life on that freedom as on a foundation stone. A doctorate on fractured-rock aquifers in the Karoo Supergroup. Eleven years with the consultancy, two hundred and some boreholes sited by magnetometer and resistivity and the patient reading of air photographs, the honest instruments that did not care who held them. She had written a short furious article once, for a farming paper, explaining why no one should pay a waterwyser a cent; she had received letters about it for a year, some of them threatening, one of them from a woman in Murraysburg who said only, God gave you a gift and you spit on it. She had kept that letter. She did not know why. She took it out sometimes and read it as one presses a bruise.

And in the deep of the night, every so often, for no reason, she still woke with her palms burning.

---

Sannie Lombard gave her supper because there was no question of her driving back to town in the dark, and gave her the back bedroom, the one in which Braam had been born, and a jug of water for washing that she must have measured out of the tank by the cupful. Nobody mentioned the dowsing. They spoke of the price of lucerne, of the tanker, which had not come on Tuesday, of the Lombards' son in Port Elizabeth who wanted them to sell up and come to the coast and live in a flat near the sea, where Braam would die, Sannie said calmly, ladling soup, within the year, of looking at water he could not drink. Braam ate in silence. After the meal he went out to the kraal with a torch to look at his ewes, and Hester, standing at the kitchen window drying dishes with a cloth that smelled of soap and woodsmoke, watched the little light go across the yard and stop and stay stopped for a long time.

When she went to bed she found the fork lying across her pillow.

It was peach wood. Of course it was peach wood. It had been cut that evening, she saw, from the dying tree behind the outside tap; the cut ends were still wet, still bitter-smelling, the leaves stripped from it with a knife, the forks of equal length, about the span of her forearm. The bark was smooth and grey-green and unbroken. Someone had chosen it with care. Someone had trimmed it the way her grandfather trimmed them, close to the junction, so that the grip lay easy in the hand.

She did not touch it. She stood over the bed in her socks and looked at it and felt the old weight come back down onto her chest as if it had never been away: not fear, which would have been simple, but something heavier and more tangled than fear, a dread that was half shame and half a kind of terrible, guilty hunger. She knew precisely what would happen if she picked it up. Nothing would happen. She would walk the farm with it at sunrise like a fool, under the eyes of an old man who thought she was a miracle, and it would do nothing, because there was nothing for it to do; and he would watch it do nothing, and lose the last thing he had, which was not water but his belief in a thing he had seen once, as a young man, in his father's time; and she would drive away from Doornkuil having taken that from him as well.

Or it would turn.

She would feel it turn in her hands, and she would know, she would know, with every cell of her trained and educated brain, that it was her own wrists doing it. Ideomotor. Carpenter, 1852. And she would not be able to stop it, and it would not matter that she knew, and Braam Lombard would drill wherever it pointed and spend whatever money he had left in the world on a hole sited by the involuntary twitching of a frightened woman's tendons; and if it was dry it would be her fault, and if it was not dry it would be worse.

That was the thing she could not look at directly. If it was not dry it would be worse. Then there would be no going back to the library. And the bakkies would come up the road from every farm in the district, and the telephone would ring, and the woman from Murraysburg would be right.

She moved the fork to the chair without letting her palms touch the bark, holding it by one end between two fingers as she might have held a dead snake. She lay down in the dark. Through the wall she could hear the old couple talking softly in the other bedroom, and then not talking, and then, after a long time, Braam's breathing, ragged, the breath of a man who sleeps with his mouth open because his nose is full of dust. The windpump shrieked on its bearing by the dam. She lay on her back with her hands open on the blanket, palms up, and did not sleep, and despised herself for not sleeping, and despised herself, too, for the clear knowledge that she was despising herself in order not to think about the fork on the chair; and under all of that, like groundwater under the shale, the thing she did not believe and could not stop knowing went on and on in her palms in the dark.

---

She went out before the light.

She told herself that she was going to look at the koppie for the resistivity line. She took her field book and her GPS and her hat, and the fork, because it would be easier to show him in the morning that it had done nothing than to argue that it would do nothing; she took it as a scientist takes a control. She told herself all that, walking down past the kraal with the ewes shifting and coughing in the dark and the stars still hard overhead and the cold coming up out of the stones. She very nearly believed it.

The Karoo before sunrise has no colour. Everything is the grey of ash, the bushes, the stones, the dead grass, the line of the hills against the sky, and the light comes into it not from the east but from everywhere at once, the way water comes up into a dry sponge, until between one breath and the next there are shapes, and then edges, and then, last of all and very slowly, colour: the rust on the dolerite, the dusty olive of the sweet thorn, a little pink on the high ridge of the Sneeuberg where the sun had found it first.

She stood at the second dry hole, beside the cap Sakkie had screwed onto the casing, and held the fork out in front of her the way her grandfather had folded it into her hands thirty-four years before. Palms up. Thumbs out. Not hard and not soft. Her hands were shaking already, with cold and with something else, and she cursed them under her breath in two languages and walked.

She walked the line of the dyke first. That was only honest. If there were anything to it at all, it would go down over the dyke, where every dowser in the district would have sent it, where the magnetometer had sent her: up the slope along the spine of black boulders, a hundred metres, two hundred, her boots slipping on the loose shale and the fork held out before her as level as a spirit bubble.

It did nothing.

Of course it did nothing. She walked the whole length of the dyke, to where it disappeared under the scree at the foot of the koppie, and the fork lay in her hands like what it was, a stick, a bit of fruit tree, and she felt the relief of that come into her chest so strongly that she had to stop and stand still. There. There. Science, which had failed him twice, had not failed her; it had told her that the stick was a stick, and the stick was a stick. She would go back to the house and put it down on Braam Lombard's kitchen table and tell him so, gently, and drive the resistivity gear out from town, and walk his north camp with honest instruments, and either she would find his water or she would not, and if she did not, it would not be because of what was or was not in her hands.

She turned to go down. The sun came up over the eastern ridge and laid a long light across the slope from the side, low and flat, the light in which a field geologist sees everything she has missed at noon. And in that light she saw the karees.

There were seven of them. She had seen them before; she had walked past them eleven days running. Small rough-barked trees with their willow-thin leaves hanging, dark green, darker than anything else on that slope, darker than they had any right to be in the fourth year of a drought. They stood in a line. Not a clump, which might have meant a seep or an old kraal or the shade where a shepherd's hut had been. A line, very nearly straight, running down from the shoulder of the koppie and across the slope at an angle of perhaps thirty degrees to the dyke, and crossing, if one drew it on in the mind, the spine of the dyke below her, between the place where she stood and the dry hole.

She had seen them. She had seen them, every day, and written nothing in her field book, because the magnetometer had already shown her the dyke, and the dyke was so clean and so strong and so exactly what the textbooks said, and the karees were only karees.

She looked down at her hands. They were still holding the fork out before her. She had not put it down.

"No," Hester said aloud, to nobody.

She walked towards the place where the line of karees met the dyke. She did not decide to. She was aware of not deciding, and of the cold sick lucidity with which she watched herself not decide; she was aware of the fork in her hands and of the muscles of her forearms and wrists and of every one of the small tendons that drew the fingers in, and she held them all still with the whole of her will, rigidly still, as a man holds a full glass along a crowded room. She knew. She knew what she was doing. She was a woman with a doctorate in groundwater who had seen a line of trees too green for the season and understood with the back of her mind, before her front mind could catch up and forbid it, that a second dyke ran there, small, thin, cutting the big one at an angle, a dyke the magnetometer could have missed entirely, because she had run her traverses only along the corridor of the big dyke and stopped them short at the scree, and a dyke a metre wide shows on a trace as a flicker the eye forgives; a thin dyke, with fresh fractures where the two met, and water in them, enough to keep seven karees green through four years without rain. She knew it. Her hands knew it. Her hands were going to tell her, and she was not going to let them, she was going to hold them still if she had to tear them off at the wrist.

Forty metres. Thirty. The fork lay level. Her teeth were clenched so hard her jaw ached. Twenty. Ten.

It turned.

It did not dip, or nod. It wrenched downward in her fists as it had wrenched in the yard at Kendrew thirty-four years before, with the same sudden, savage, impersonal force, as if a hand had come up out of the ground and seized it by the point; and she held on, because she had been told to hold on and because to let go would have been to admit that there was something to let go of, and the smooth young bark twisted loose under her palms and the green wood bit into the skin, and the point went down and down until it was aimed between her boots at the stony earth, and stayed there, and quivered.

She stood there.

It was her own wrists. She could feel that it was. She could feel the tendons, drawn tight as wire, rotating the fork through ninety degrees, exactly as Carpenter had described. Ideomotor. Unconscious muscular action in response to an idea present in the mind. The idea had been in her mind; she had put it there herself, by seeing the karees. There was nothing under the ground pulling at anything. There was only a woman who had spent twenty years refusing to know a thing and had known it anyway, in her body, below the reach of her will, and whose body had decided, at the last, to stop waiting for her permission.

That was all it was.

It did not help. She had believed, in the library at Stellenbosch, that knowing how it was done would set her free of it. It made it heavier. Her grandfather had never read Carpenter in his life. He had walked this country for sixty years, and had called it by another name.

Her palms were bleeding a little. She looked at them. Then she gathered four stones from the slope, flat ones, and built them into a small cairn at the place where the point of the fork had gone down, and put the fork on top of the cairn, and went back up to the house.

---

Sakkie did not ask her anything. He looked at the cairn, and at the karees, and at her hands, which she had wrapped in a strip of Sannie's dishcloth; and then he looked at Braam, standing a little way back on the slope with his hat in both hands like a man in church; and he spat once, neatly, to one side, and lifted the fork off the cairn and laid it on the bonnet of her bakkie, and kicked the stones away, and began to set up the rig.

"I'm calling it a geological siting," Hester told him. "Intersection of a secondary dyke with the main structure. North-east trend. That's what it is. That's what goes on the report."

"Ja, Doctor," said Sakkie Ferreira. "Geological."

Braam said nothing at all. He had said nothing since she had come up onto the stoep at six in the morning with the dishcloth round her hands and told him where to drill; he had only looked at her face, for a long moment, and then gone inside and come back with the folder in which he kept the title deeds of Doornkuil, and sat down with it on his knees.

They spudded in at eight. The hammer went down through the first metres of soil and weathered shale with a racket like a shipyard, and the compressor blew the cuttings up out of the collar in a grey plume, the same stale-bread grey, and the wind took it away down the slope and laid it over the stones. Lungile fed the rods. Sakkie watched the gauges and the cuttings and spat. Hester stood upwind in her hat with her bandaged hands pushed into her pockets and logged the metres in her field book, as she would have logged them on any hole she had ever sited, because the work was the work and the noting of the work was the only thing she still knew how to do with her hands without fear: ten metres; twenty; weathered shale; fresh blue-grey shale; thirty; thirty-six, a hard band, baked, the hammer ringing on it; forty.

Nothing came up but dust.

She did not look at Braam. She could feel him there behind her, on the slope, not moving. Fifty metres. She could feel, in her own body, the exact weight of his money going down the hole metre by metre at four hundred and some rand a time; she could feel the little green tank by the kitchen, hollow to the ground; she could feel the fork lying on the bonnet of her bakkie, where Sakkie had put it, twenty metres away and not looked at. Fifty-four. Fifty-six. If it was dry, she would walk over to the bakkie and take the fork and break it across her knee and tear up her invoice, and drive to town, and go on with her life, and the knowledge of what had happened on this slope at sunrise would go on sitting in her chest exactly as heavily as if it had been water, because a dry hole proved nothing. A dry hole had never proved anything. That was the obscenity of it.

At fifty-eight metres the plume changed colour.

It went dark. Not wet; dark. The grey dust coming out of the collar was suddenly grey mud, spattering, heavy, falling back on the casing in clots instead of riding up the wind. Sakkie's head came round. Lungile stopped with a rod in his hands. And then the mud thinned, and lightened, and there was water coming out of the top of the hole in the compressor's blast, a spitting, cloudy, sullen surge of it, the colour of milky tea, that came up out of the collar and fell back onto the hot casing and hissed, and ran down onto the dry stones of the slope, and darkened them; and the dark spread out across the stones the way blood spreads into cloth.

Nobody cheered. That was the thing she would remember. Nobody cheered at all. Sakkie took his hand off the lever and stood looking at it. Behind her, Hester heard Braam Lombard sit down on the ground.

"Keep going," she said. Her voice did not sound like her own. "Take it to seventy. Let's see if there's a second strike."

There was no second strike. At seventy metres Sakkie drew the hammer up off the bottom and let the compressor blow the hole clean, and they measured the blow yield in the old way, with a twenty-litre bucket and the stopwatch on Lungile's phone, three times, as she had measured it on two hundred other holes. The water was clearing by then. It came out of the casing in a pulsing sheet and filled the bucket in forty seconds, forty-one, thirty-nine; which was half a litre a second, near enough; eighteen hundred litres in an hour. Enough for the house. Enough for Sannie's shirts and the ewes in the kraal and a garden, if they were careful, and the dead roses, if they were not. Not enough for the farm. Not enough to bring back the Merinos or fill the dam or stop the son in Port Elizabeth from telephoning every Sunday. Not enough, perhaps, for very long: a fracture aquifer in the fourth year of a drought, which might give for twenty years or might go down like a pricked tyre by Christmas. She wrote the figures in her field book in the same small hand in which she had written down the failure of two holes before it. 58 m: WS. BY ±0.5 l/s. Clear by 70 m. Recommend 72-hr constant-rate test before equipping. It was a good hole. It was a modest, honest, adequate hole. It was not a miracle. She would not let anyone call it one.

She looked up from the book. Far off down the valley road, where it came round the shoulder of the hill from the Graaff-Reinet side, there was a plume of dust that was not from the rig. A bakkie, coming fast. Behind it, a long way behind but coming, another.

It had not taken them an hour. Somebody had seen Sakkie's rig set up on a new site this morning, and somebody had seen the woman from town walking the slope at sunrise with something held out in her hands, and somebody had a cousin, and the cousin had a telephone; and now the bakkies were coming up the road from every farm in the Camdeboo where the windpumps had stopped and the tanks rang hollow, and the men in them would get out with their hats in their hands like Braam Lombard, and they would not ask her anything. They would only wait.

She closed the field book and put it in her pocket. She did not look at the road again. She walked down to the casing, where the water was still coming up out of fifty-eight metres of rock that had held it in the dark for longer than there had been anyone in this country to be thirsty, and she unwound Sannie's dishcloth from her hands and let it fall, and held her torn palms out under the water.

It was cold. It was colder than she had believed water could be in that country, so cold that it seemed for an instant to burn, and it found the raw places the peach wood had made and went into them like salt. She did not take her hands away. She held them there, open, palms upward, as her grandfather had once folded them round a fork in a yard at Kendrew, and let the water run over them and through her fingers and down onto the stones, until they ached to the bone with it and she could no longer tell what she felt from what she knew.

THE END

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