He also was rather fresh to Cecil, so I called him down very hard, and told him if he couldn't make up his mind whether we would go or not, I'd wire to some others who would help him to make up his mind quickly.

He said I was at liberty to do that, so I went out and burned wires over all of South Africa.

As he reads all the telegrams he naturally read mine and the next morning he was as humble and white as a head waiter.

But by ten o'clock my wires began to bear fruit and he began to catch it.

Milner wired him to send us on at once and apologized to us by another wire so all is well and we go vouched for by the High Commissioner.
DICK.
PRETORIA, May 18th, 1900.
DEAR DAD--AND OTHERS OF THE CLARK AND DAVIS FAMILIES: I have not had time to write such a long letter as this one must be, as I have been working on my Ledger and Scribner stories.
Cecil and I started to the "front," which was then May 4th, at Brandfort with Captain Von Loosberg, a German baron who married in New Orleans and became an American citizen and who is now in command of Loosberg's Artillery in the Free State.