Hard by is the bleak barnlike church in which he preached, and on either side are the Government offices and the Law Courts, buildings which would grace any European capital.

Here, at two o'clock on the afternoon of June 5th, Lord Roberts sat his horse and saw pass in front of him the men who had followed him so far and so faithfully--the Guards, the Essex, the Welsh, the Yorks, the Warwicks, the guns, the mounted infantry, the dashing irregulars, the Gordons, the Canadians, the Shropshires, the Cornwalls, the Camerons, the Derbys, the Sussex, and the London Volunteers.

For over two hours the khaki waves with their crests of steel went sweeping by.

High above their heads from the summit of the Raad-saal the broad Union Jack streamed for the first time.
Through months of darkness we had struggled onwards to the light.

Now at last the strange drama seemed to be drawing to its close.