It also indicated in a way that thirst for power which never left him until the last moment of his life.

He had within him the weakness of those dethroned kings who, in exile, still like to have a Court about them and to travel in state.

Rhodes had a court, and also travelled with a suite who, under the pretence of being useful to him, effectually barred access to any stranger.

But for his entourage it is likely that Rhodes might have outlived the odium of the Raid.

But, as Mrs.
van Koopman said to me, "What is the use of trying to help Rhodes when one is sure that he will never be allowed to perform all that he might promise ?" The winter which followed upon the relief of Kimberley Rhodes spent almost entirely at Groote Schuur, going to Rhodesia only in spring.