Here we seemed to have left warlike conditions behind us, for the town was agog with the excitement of a cricket-match, between Lord Hawke's eleven and a Natal fifteen.

On the cricket-field we met again two of our _Tantallon Castle_ fellow-passengers, Mr.Guest and Mr.H.Milner, who had come down from Johannesburg with the cricketers.

We were interested to compare notes and to hear Mr.Milner's adventures, which really made us smile, though they could hardly have been a laughing matter to him at the time.

He told us that, after twice visiting Captain C.Coventry, who was wounded in the Raid, at the Krugersdorp Hospital without molestation, on the third occasion, when returning by train to Johannesburg, he was roughly pulled out of his carriage at ten o'clock at night, and told that, since he had no passport, he was to be arrested on the charge of being a spy.

In vain did he tell them that only at the last station his passport had been demanded in such peremptory terms that he had been forced to give it up.