By eight o'clock the street was almost clear, and there was nothing to show how great a change had befallen us.
About ten a tremendous explosion far away told that the Boers were blowing up the bridges behind them as they fled.
And so with to-night the long siege really ends.

It is hardly credible yet.

For 118 days we have been cut off from the world.

All that time we have been more or less under fire, sometimes under terrible fire.

What it will be to mix with the great world again and live each day in comparative security we can hardly imagine at present.