I am certain that he has tried often and often to stir up the Boers against him.
Old Hans Coetzee told me that he denounced him to the Veld-Cornet as an _uitlander_ and a _verdomde Engelsmann_ about two years before the annexation, and tried to get him to persuade the Landrost to report him as a law-breaker to the Raad; while all the time he was pretending to be so friendly.

Then in the Sikukuni war it was Frank Muller who caused them to commandeer uncle's two best waggons and spans.

He gave none himself, nothing but a couple of bags of meal.

He is a wicked fellow, Bessie, and a dangerous fellow; but he has more brains and more power about him than any man in the Transvaal, and you will have to be very careful, or he will do us all a bad turn." "Ah!" said Bessie; "well, he can't do much now that the country is English." "I am not so sure of that.

I am not so sure that the country is going to stop English.