If all the mills all at once, with the thousands of stamps on the Rand reef, were to stop suddenly, and the smoke and the red flare were to die, it would be frightening in more ways than one.

But I see what you mean.

There might be a sense of peace, but the minds and bodies which had been vibrating with the stir of power would feel that the soul had gone out of things, and they would dwindle too." "If Rhodes should fall, if the stamps on the Rand should cease-- ?" He got to his feet.

"Either is possible, maybe probable; and I don't want to think of it.

As you say, there'd be a ghastly sense of emptiness and a deadly kind of peace." He smiled bitterly.
She rose now also, and fingering some flowers in a vase, arranging them afresh, said: "Well, this Jameson Raid, if it is proved that Cecil Rhodes is mixed up in it, will it injure you greatly--I mean your practical interests ?" He stood musing for a moment.