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"The same initials!" "Just so!" agreed Mr. Killick. "That's what struck me Sam Levin: Spencer Levendale. Very well! I continue. One day I went to Daniel Molteno's shop to get something repaired, and it struck me that I hadn't seen Sam Levin the last two or three times I had been in. 'Where's your partner? I asked of Daniel Molteno. 'I haven't seen him lately. 'Partner no longer, Mr.
On December 7, by which time considerable reinforcements had come in, Gatacre felt himself strong enough to tackle Olivier at Stormberg. His plan was to take his column by train as far as Molteno, whence a night march of about eight miles would bring it into position for attacking the Boer laager.
If Carnarvon, instead of writing for publication an elaborate and official despatch, had explained his policy to the Governor in private letters, and directed him to sound Molteno in confidence, the Cape Ministers might themselves have proposed a scheme; and if they had proposed it, it would have been carried.
The rest rallied at a point fifteen hundred yards from the scene of the surprise, and began an orderly retreat to Molteno. In the meanwhile three powerful Boer guns upon the ridge had opened fire with great accuracy, but fortunately with defective shells.
Killick, said he. 'We've dissolved. He's gone to South Africa. 'What to do there? I asked. 'Oh, answered Daniel Molteno, 'he's touched with this fever to get at close quarters with the diamond fields! He's gone out there to make a fortune, and come back a millionaire. 'Well! I said. 'He's a likely candidate. 'Oh, yes! said Daniel.
Barkly was not unfavourable to Federation. But he perceived that it could not be forced upon a self-governing Colony, and that he himself would be powerless unless he acted in harmony with his constitutional advisers. He, as well as Molteno, refused to attend the dinner at which Froude on his arrival was entertained in Cape Town. Molteno advised Froude not to go, or if he went, not to speak.
"Can you remember, too, from whom you bought those rings?" enquired Purdie eagerly. "Yes! as if it were yesterday!" said Mr. Killick. "I bought them from a City jeweller whom I knew very well at that time a man named Daniel Molteno!" The old solicitor's trained eye and quick intelligence saw at once that this announcement immediately conveyed some significant meaning to his two young visitors.
Gatacre, seeing that it was a hopeless struggle, abandoned the project of reoccupying Stormberg and sounded the retreat. He was followed up for some distance by Commandant du Plooy, who made a few prisoners and took two ammunition waggons. Weary and thirsty, the English forces re-entered Molteno that evening. They had been baffled in a determined attack.
Molteno, though never discourteous, received him coldly, and objected to his making speeches. The Governor, who liked to be good friends with his Ministers, gave him no encouragement. The House of Assembly, after proposing to censure Carnarvon in their haste, censured Froude at their leisure. That did him no harm.
But I've a pretty good notion what Chen Li was knifed for!" When the house-surgeon had gone away, Ayscough turned to Melky. "Come back to Molteno Lodge," he said. "They're searching it. Let's see if they've found anything of importance."
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