And so we take leave of our friend the Old Carthusian defending his warm corner. As the last page is turned we see him walking through the streets of Mafeking, now glancing with hard steely eye to the forts which throw their coward shells into the women's laager, now turning to give an order with clenched hands and locked jaws, and now stooping down to lift a child into his arms and caress away its little fears. On his mind weighs the safety of that town with its handful of brave lives, the prestige of England, which suffers if the flag once set above the roofs of any town, whatever the size, falls before the assault of the Queen's enemies, and the thought that far away in distant London the mother who made him what he is, waits on the rack for his delivery. Be sure that never a thought of adding to his own reputation enters the mind of Baden-Powell in little Mafeking, that never does bitterness for tardy release enter his soul, and that all his labour has but one great all-embracing end--the victory of his side. "Play the game; play that your side may win. Don't think of your own glorification or your own risks--your side are backing you up. Play up and make the best of every chance you get." FINIS _Printed by_ R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, _Edinburgh_ +----------------------------------------------------+ | | | PUBLISHER'S ANNOUNCEMENT | | | | _Uniform with this volume. 3s. 6d._ | | | | SIR GEORGE WHITE | | V.C. | | THE HERO OF LADYSMITH | | | | By THOMAS H.G. COATES | | _With Illustrations_ | | | | | | _Cloth, Crown 8vo. 2s._ | | | | MAJUBA | | | | BRONKERSPRUIT, INGOGO, | | LANG'S NEK, KRUGERSDORP | | | | By HAMISH HENDRY | | | | _With 8 Full-page Illustrations by_ | | R. CATON WOODVILLE | | | | | | LONDON: GRANT RICHARDS | | 9 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C. |