icate manner, but Rhodes chose to consider them in
the light of a personal affront, and poured down torrents of invective
upon the British Government for what he termed their ingratitude. The
truth of the matter was that he could not bring himself to understand that
he was not the person alone capable of bringing about a permanent
settlement of South Africa. The energy of his young days had left him, and
perhaps the chronic disease from which he was suffering added to his
constant state of irritation and obscured the clearness of his judgment in
these post-raid days.

I hope that my readers will not imagine from my reference that I have a
grudge of any kind against Doctor Jameson.[D] On the contrary, truth
compels me to say that I have seldom met a more delightful creature than
this old friend and companion of Cecil Rhodes, and I do believe he held a
sincere affection for his chief. But Jameson, as well as Rhodes, was under
the influence of certain facts and of certain circumstances, and I do not
think that he was, at that particular moment about which I am writing, the
best adviser that Rhodes might have had. In one thing Doctor Jim was above
suspicion: he had never dirtied his hands with any of the financial
speculations which those about Rhodes indulged in, to the latter's
detriment much more than his own, considering the fact that it was he who
was considered as the father of their various "smart" schemes. Jameson
always kept aloof from every kind of shady transaction in so far as money
matters were concerned, and perhaps this was the reason why so many people
detested him and kept advising Rhodes to brush him aside, or, at all
events, not to keep him near him whilst the war was going on. His name was
to the Dutch as a red rag to a very fierce and more than furious bull,
while the Bond, as well as the burghers of the Transvaal, would rather
have had dealings with the Evil One himself than with Doctor Jim. Their
prejudices against him were not to be shaken. In reality others about
Rhodes were far more dangerous than Jameson could ever have proved on the
question of a South African settlement in which the rights of the Dutch
elements in the Cape and Orange Free State would be respected and
considered.

[D] Dr. Jameson died November 26th, 1917.

[Illustration: THE RT. HON. SIR LEANDER STARR JAMESON]

Whatever might have been his faults, Doctor Jameson was neither a rogue
nor a fool. For Rhodes he had a sincere a