Then the G Company of the Gordons, under Captain Carnegie.

But for a long time no one knew where the gap in our line really was.

About half-past nine one could see the enemy still thick among the rocks and trees on the left of the extremity, though the shrapnel was dropping all among them from the 53rd Battery.

It was just before this that Lieutenant Walker, watching with a telescope from the signal station on the Convent, saw two Boers creeping along the edge alone for about 150 yards under tremendous fire.

Suddenly a shrapnel took them, and both fell down.