ven of documents brought in from General Kemp by those
very spies.

The instructions were to see that the information contained in those
documents reached the Consuls without their knowing how and when they
had been brought into town, and for this purpose several copies had
been typed and were slipped under the doors of the different
Consulates while the inmates were asleep.

Any day between August 5th and 10th Captain Naude said he would come,
and each evening found Harmony prepared to receive him, but on the 9th
Mr. Botha brought a note from the gallant Captain saying that he would
be unable to partake of Mrs. van Warmelo's hospitality that month. A
woman, whose name was unknown, had conveyed this letter to the Secret
Committee. It contained no particular news except that August 8th had
been celebrated as a day of thanksgiving for our victories, and the
9th, the very day on which the intimation was received in town, would
be a day of humiliation for our many sins.

When this became known to the "inner circle," private prayer-meetings
were immediately held in different houses in the town, while the men
in the field held their day of humiliation under the open sky. In this
way we worked together and supported one another spiritually, morally,
and practically, in spite of searchlights and barbed-wire fences.

This was the first news received of the Captain's safe return to the
commandos after that eventful visit in July, and his friends were
thankful to receive it. Another source of thankfulness was the fact
that he was not coming in that month, for the enemy was on the _qui
vive_ for more spies, and consequently the dangers were multiplying
for the Boers. The reckless coming in and going out of irresponsible
men became a source of real danger to the people who harboured them,
and on August 12th Mr. Botha came again to warn Mrs. van Warmelo
against having dealings with any spies except those sent by the Secret
Committee.

"You will only find yourselves in jail or over the border," he said,
"which would not be so bad if that were all, but it would ruin our
chances of assisting the Generals."

He then reported that a young spy had come in on Saturday night and
that he had been taken to Mrs. General Joubert's house the next
morning while she was in church. The good lady was anything but
pleased, on her return home, to find him there, for she had a houseful
of people, and she was obliged to stow him into a tiny room,