rom their victoria, and willing hands
grasped the shafts; and like returning conquerors, instead of
criminals, these instigators were dragged triumphantly down the heart
of the town followed by a vociferous multitude.

As the invited guests of Cape Colony we travelled on a special train
to Cape Town--by 'we,' I mean a dozen or two Reformers with their
families. The heartfelt ringing cheers as we pulled out of the station
I can never forget. The cheers again at Bloemfontein and the strangers
who came forward to shake hands and congratulate have enriched my
life. One man at a way station in the Free State rode up shouting:

'Where is the American, John Hays Hammond?' My husband came forward.
'Mr. Hammond, I have come miles from an ostrich farm to shake hands
with you. You are a white man, and Americans are proud of you!'

The Mayor of Cape Town received us, and dear friends were there to
tell us with brimming eyes of their joy in our release.

XV

Those good people who have followed me thus far will see that a
woman's part in a revolution is a very poor part to play. There is
little hazard and no glory in it.

The day we made Southampton, as we stood, a number of Reformers and
Reformers' wives, on the 'Norham's' deck, one of the gentlemen who had
come to welcome us asked:

'Mrs. Hammond, what did _you_ do in the revolution?'

'She helped us bear our trouble,' said Lionel Phillips, and his words
were sweet praise to my ears.

A few weeks later, in my lovely English home, a third son was born to
us. There was something very appropriate in this child of war-times
being first consigned to the professional arms of a Miss Gunn.

'He is perfect,' were his father's first words to me as he leaned over
the new-born infant, and every mother will know all that meant to me.

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