PART I. CHAPTER I. EARLIER DAYS 1 CHAPTER II. AFTER THE WAR 44 CHAPTER III. THE ORIGIN OF THE MOVEMENT 117 CHAPTER IV. THE REFORM COMMITTEE 137 CHAPTER V. THE COMMITTEE'S DILEMMA 151 CHAPTER VI. THE INVASION 173 CHAPTER VII. AFTER DOORNKOP 200 CHAPTER VIII. ARREST AND TRIAL OF THE REFORMERS 222 CHAPTER IX. LIFE IN GAOL 251 PART II. CHAPTER X. THREE YEARS' GRACE 285 CHAPTER XI. THE BEGINNING OF THE END 333 APPENDICES. APPENDIX A. Pretoria Convention. 369 APPENDIX B. London Convention. 377 APPENDIX C. President Kruger's Affairs in the Raads. 385 APPENDIX D. Volksraad Debates. 387 APPENDIX E. Malaboch. 395 APPENDIX F. The Great Franchise Debate. 396 APPENDIX G. Terms of Dr. Jameson's Surrender. 404 APPENDIX H. Sir John Willoughby's Report to the War Office. 411 APPENDIX I. Manifesto. 422 APPENDIX K. The Case of the Chieftainess Toeremetsjani. 432 APPENDIX L. Report on the Letter written on a Torn Telegram Form signed "F.R.," by Mr. T.H. Gurrin, Expert in Handwriting. 438 PART I. CHAPTER I. IN EARLIER DAYS. When, before resorting to extreme measures to obtain what the Uitlanders deemed to be their bare rights, the final appeal or declaration was made on Boxing Day, 1895, in the form of the manifesto published by the Chairman of the National Union, President Kruger, after an attentive consideration of the document as translated to him, remarked grimly: 'Their rights. Yes, they'll get them--over my dead body!' And volumes of explanation could not better illustrate the Boer attitude and policy towards the English-speaking immigrants.