Captain Lambton at once detected the trick, and sent two shells from "Lady Anne" to check it.

But it was none the less successful.

There could be little doubt "Long Tom" was on the move, "doing a guy," the soldiers said.

We hoped he was packing up for Pretoria.
In the evening Colonel Stoneman held the first of his Shakespeare reading parties, and again we found how keenly a month of shell-fire intensifies the literary sense.
_November 30, 1899._ At night the Boer searchlight near Bester's, north-west of the town, swept the positions by Range Post, the enemy having been informed by spies (as usual) that we intended a forward movement before dawn.

Three battalions with cavalry and guns were to have advanced on to the open ground beyond Range Post, and again attack the Boer position on Bluebank, where there are now two guns.