From well-informed quarters I learn that the main object of the German Emperor's brother's visit was to discuss the ways and means of preserving Transvaal independence." Eight days previous to this Dr.Leyds had tried to make the world believe that he had come to an understanding with the Czar.

In both cases the object aimed at was obvious.

Yet though the Dreyfus affair has taught me the all-powerful and far-reaching influence of a lie, I confess that Dr.Leyds is a puzzle to me.
But his work is at an end now.

He may have succeeded cleverly in deceiving Krueger and Steyn what the European Powers really meant to do, or in giving those same Powers garbled accounts of the state of affairs in the Transvaal, and the true bearings of the Bloemfontein negotiation, yet the fact remains that it is mainly through him that the South African Republics have lost their independence.

He could not like Mr.
Krueger, excuse himself upon being led astray by blind and ignorant patriotism.