Some star--man, prophecy, or trinket--is coming out of the West.

The Germans know, and that is the card with which they are going to astonish the world.' 'And the mission you spoke of for me is to go and find out ?' He nodded gravely.

'That is the crazy and impossible mission.' 'Tell me one thing, Sir Walter,' I said.

'I know it is the fashion in this country if a man has a special knowledge to set him to some job exactly the opposite.

I know all about Damaraland, but instead of being put on Botha's staff, as I applied to be, I was kept in Hampshire mud till the campaign in German South West Africa was over.