FRANK MULLER SHOWS HIS HAND Presently Muller turned round.

"Do you know why I have told you all this, _Oom_ Silas ?" he asked.
"No." "Because I want you to understand that you and all the Englishmen in this country are in a very dangerous position.

The war is coming, and whether it goes for you or against you, you must suffer.

You Englishmen have many enemies.

You have got all the trade and own nearly half the land, and you are always standing up for the black people, whom the Boers hate.