The, Boers were very polite to Cecil and as she rode through the different camps every man took off his hat.

We went back to Ventersberg that night and about two o'clock Cecil came to my room and woke me up with the intelligence that the British were only two hours away.

She had heard the commandant informing the landlady, a grand low comedy character from Brooklyn, who had the room next to Cecil's.

I interviewed the landlady who was sitting up in bed in curl papers, and with a Webley revolver.

She was quite hysterical so I aroused Loosberg who was too sleepy to understand.