Amid shouts and cheers and waving parasols the people raised the National Anthem, and for once there was some dignity in that inferior tune.

Everybody's life was in danger for "The Queen." The proposal to leave the town was flung back with defiance.

Rather let our homes be flattened out! To-night my grey-haired Cape-boy and my Zulu came to me in silence and tears.

They had hoped for escape.

They longed for the peace of Maritzburg, and now, like myself, they were bottled up amid "pom-poms." Had I not promised never to bring them into danger--always to leave them snug in the rear?
They were devoted to my service.