Either by accident or mature reflection on the part of the conspirators in that city, this train was allowed to pass to its destination unmolested.

It proved to be one of those small happenings that completely alter the course of events.

If the burghers had not stopped the Raiders there, nothing could have prevented them from entering Johannesburg, for after another three miles the long-sought-for chimneys--the overhanging cloud of smoke--would have come into view.

The very stars in their courses seemed to have fought for the Boers, and justified President Kruger's belief that his people were specially under the protection of Providence.[11] Neither will anyone ever determine the number of Boers killed at Krugersdorp.

One _Veldtcornet_ inserted in all the papers that he defied anyone to prove that more than four burghers were shot, and of these two were killed accidentally by their own rifles.