ame in for a few
moments. We have to see some friends off to-night."

"Ah! Just wait a minute, please, will you?"

He hastened from the room, returning shortly with a parcel which he
placed in her hands without a word.

"What is this?" she asked curiously.

"Five pounds of the best Boer tobacco."

"For me?" in amazement.

He approached her and whispered in her ear:

"For the spy!"

Hansie fled from that house, laughing as she went, and patting her
parcel of tobacco rapturously.

"Oh, mother, wasn't it funny of him?"

"Yes, but when will you learn to be more careful? Hansie, you are
frightfully reckless. You will not listen to reason, I suppose, until
we find ourselves across the border and Harmony confiscated!"

The Captain was delighted with the present and willingly added the
extra five pounds weight to his cumbrous and heavy burdens.

* * * * *

Somebody, leaving the country for Holland, offered to take documents
and letters from the van Warmelos to the President on condition that
they could guarantee that he would not be "found out."

This offer came at a most opportune moment, for there was information
of the greatest importance to be sent to Mr. W.T. Stead.

For some weeks past Mrs. van Warmelo had been anxious to smuggle
through to him copies of the two petitions to the Consuls and a copy
of their report on the Concentration Camps. For this the White
Envelope was not considered satisfactory enough--the documents were
too bulky and the post during those days not to be depended upon.

The information, therefore, was written on tissue paper (the usual
method) and packed in a small bottle of Dr. Williams's Pink Pills, to
be handed to a relative of Mrs. van Warmelo's in Holland, with
instructions that he should read the contents and forward them without
delay to Mr. Stead for publication in the _Review of Reviews_.

The "medicine" was faithfully delivered in Holland, but alas! the
recipient, with unheard-of presumption, after having read the
documents, decided in his own mind that they were not of sufficient
importance to be published in London and quietly kept them to himself!

Kept them to himself, at a time when their publication to the world
would have been of inestimable value to the Boers and would perhaps
have saved thousands of lives!

Of course this breach of trust was not known at Harmony for many
months--not, in fact, until so long after it took place t