Now, please, tell me everything--of the inside, I mean--about Cecil Rhodes and the Raiders.

Is Rhodes overwhelmed?
And Mr.Chamberlain--you have seen him?
The papers say you have spent many hours at the Colonial Office.

I suppose you were with him at six o'clock last evening, instead of being here with me, as you promised." He shook his head.

"Rhodes?
The bigger a man is the greater the crash when he falls; and no big man falls alone." She nodded.

"There's the sense of power, too, which made everything vibrate with energy, which gave a sense of great empty places filled--of that power withdrawn and collapsed.