"I hope they'll give me a warm corner," he said, gripping the Doctor's hand.

And then in a few weeks this Old Boy was in his African corner, enjoying its Avernus-like warmth.
The story of the siege of Mafeking is one of the most interesting an Englishman can read about.

One may truthfully say that it is the story of a single man--our hero, B.-P.

Good men he has had under him, skilful officers and valorous troops; but all the daring, all the gallantry, all the heroism would have been powerless in such a situation without the unlimited resourcefulness of the intrepid Goal-Keeper.

With a handful of men he has held at bay in a small and very exposed town as many as 6000 Boers, commanded at one time by the dogged and unscrupulous Cronje.