MITTEE 272

XXXI. "TEA FOR TWO" 279

XXXII. KIDNAPPING MAUSER THE KITTEN 283

XXXIII. THE FIRST SPIES AT HARMONY 291

XXXIV. THE CAPTAIN'S VISIT 301

XXXV. MEMORIES BITTER-SWEET 312

XXXVI. A SILENT DEPARTURE. "FARE THEE WELL" 316

XXXVII. BETRAYED 324

XXXVIII. THE RAID ON HARMONY 333

XXXIX. THE WATCHWORD. OILING THE HINGES 343

XL. PEACE, PEACE--AND THERE IS NO PEACE 356

CONCLUSION 375

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE WRITER _Frontispiece_
FACING PAGE
MRS. VAN WARMELO 4

THE SURRENDER OF THE GOLDEN CITY 30

LETTER FROM HEAD OF SECRET SERVICE TO PRESIDENT 70

THE SIX WILLOWS, HARMONY 83

CAPTAIN NAUDE 136

W.J. BOTHA 158

GENTLEMAN JIM'S ROOM 178

ADOLPH KRAUSE 225

THE APIARY, HARMONY 289

THE PETTICOAT COMMANDO

CHAPTER I

THE SCENE OF ACTION

When, on October 11th, 1899, shortly before 5 o'clock in the
afternoon, martial law was proclaimed throughout the Transvaal and
Orange Free State, South Africa, and after the great exodus of British
subjects had taken place, there remained in Pretoria, where the
principal events recorded here took place, a harmonious community of
Boers and sympathisers, who for eight months enjoyed the novel
advantage of Boer freedom under Boer martial law.

The remaining English residents were few in number, and kept, to all
appearance, "strictly neutral," until the morning of June 5th, 1900,
when the British troops poured into the capital.

The two people chiefly concerned in this story, mother and daughter,
lived in Sunnyside, a south-eastern suburb of Pretoria, on a large and
beautiful old property, appropriately called Harmo