What need to say more. The thing was done. Each felt drawn to each. Each felt that each had met a kindred spirit, and each soon felt that each loved each other; and when Jankie came in half-an-hour later to tell his _Nonnie_ that Master Willim’s black stallion had come back, he found the two talking and smiling as if they had known each other for years. When old Mijnheer Meyer came home, he gave Steve a princely welcome, and the old lady, in spite of her former distrust of him, soon learned to love him as a son; the more so as he had grown a beard since last she had seen him. She detested a man who shaved. And when Master William came home, he gladly renewed his former friendship with Steve, while his younger brother rivalled him in his attentions to their guest. Before Steve’s holiday was over, everything had been decided upon. They were to be married in a month’s time. The month was to enable Steve to give his employers a month’s notice to leave, as old Mijnheer Meyer had given him and his betrothed the Pretoria farm belonging to the family. * * * * * The wedding was over. Steve took his beautiful young bride for a trip to his old home in G----, to see his mother and sisters. His mother was greatly pleased that her son had taken such a good and beautiful young wife. As Steve received, as the wedding portion of his wife, a farm, with house, furniture and everything complete, and as his wife, like all daughters of well-to-do farmers, possessed her own flock of sheep, her own little herd of cows and bullocks, besides horses, etc., Steve found himself a fairly well-to-do young farmer. He now felt himself in the position to indulge to his heart’s content in the pleasures of tree-planting, gardening, farming and bee-keeping, which had always been his special hobby. With a good and beautiful wife, a well-stocked farm, and by selling the greater portion of his mining shares--a good capital to work his farm--Steve has every promise of a happy and prosperous life before him. What his future _will_ be we cannot say. With his intense love of country, he is sure to go in for politics, and with the freedom he now enjoys as an independent farmer, he will have leisure enough to enter into the political arena. If the opportunity offers, he is sure to do something for his country yet, and the reader may yet hear of him again as a leader of his people. We shall bid him and the reader now good-bye. THE END LONDON: DIGBY, LONG & CO., PUBLISHERS, 18 Bouverie Street, Fleet Street, E.C. _OCTOBER 1897_ _SUPPLEMENTARY LIST_ DIGBY, LONG & CO.’S NEW NOVELS, STORIES, Etc. IN ONE VOLUME, Price 6s. By Sarah Tytler. =THE AMERICAN COUSINS.= By the Author of “Lady Jean’s Vagaries,” “Citoyenne Jacqueline,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.--_Ready._ By Belton Otterburn. =UNRELATED TWINS.= By the Author of “He would be an Officer,” “Jilted,” etc. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s.--_Second Edition._