Next he tries to insist on protection being secured for
his master's friends and party in the city. Finally, says Mr. Loth-to-Stoop : "I have one more thing to propound, and then I am got to the end of my commission. Suppose that when my master is gone, any that shall yet live in the town should have such business of high concern to do, that if they be neglected the party shall be undone ; and suppose, Sir, that nobody can help in that case so well as my master and lord, may not now my master be sent for upon so urgent an occasion as this P Or if he may not be admitted into the town, may not he and the persons concerned meet in some of the villages near, and there lay their heads together and there consult of matters ? " Here, as we devoutly trust may not be the case in South Africa, Bunyan's negotiations break down and the war begins again. Needless to say, we do not wish for a moment to suggest that there is any analogy as regards the characters of the Diabolians and the Boers. We merely cite these negotiations as the best illustration we can give of the kind of discussion that has been going on in Pretoria. As our readers know, we should be the last to suggest diabolic
qualities to the Boers, and though we would resist their chief claims to the utmost, we greatly admire their tenacity.
