At first sight this seems rather a formidable matter, and
a lively imagination may form pictures of this syndicate of millionaires wandering about Europe with their pockets full of gold trying to injure Britain. In reality, however, we imagine that very little will be done with the millions. A good deal has probably already been spent, and the re- mainder will be heavily drawn on by large numbers of refugees who will refuse to go back, or who will even leave their country for the purpose of taking their share in the fund. Thelusson was going to work wonders with his accumulations, but his delirious dream of compound interest came to nothing, and the lawyers were the chief beneficiaries. We should not wonder if the result were much the same here, and if before very long there were a Boer Fund lawsuit in half the European countries. Vast sums of money when not held in individual hands always attract litigants as treacle attracts wasps.
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