CHAPTER XV.
PRETORIA AND JOHANNESBURG UNDER LORD ROBERTS AND MILITARY LAW "With malice to none ...

with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in."-- ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
At Pretoria Mrs.Godley and I found accommodation, not without some difficulty, at the Grand Hotel.

Turned for the moment into a sort of huge barrack, this was crowded to its utmost capacity.

The polite manager, in his endeavour to find us suitable rooms, conducted us all over the spacious building, and at last, struck by a bright thought, threw open the door of an apartment which he said would be free in a few hours, as the gentleman occupying it was packing up his belongings preparatory to his departure.

Great was my surprise at discovering in the khaki-clad figure, thus unceremoniously disturbed in the occupation of stowing away papers, clothes, and campaigning kit generally, no less a personage than my nephew, Winston Churchill, who had experienced such thrilling adventures during the war, the accounts of which had reached us even in far-away Mafeking.