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LONDON, FEBRUARY 16, 1900 



OD be thanked! God be thanked! one of 

 them, at least, is safe. Kimberley has been 

 relieved, and the others, assuredly the others will 

 follow ? This leap from a midnight of gloom 

 to a midday of joy has been almost too great ; 

 life, even for the most placid, has become too 

 breathless, too crowded ; let me pause a moment 

 and recapitulate. I came to London upon Saint 

 Valentine's day, the i4th; S. S. being on her 

 way south ; circumstances delayed her a day, 

 and in that day all this happened. We had 

 gone to see a friend ; she left me to take a turn 

 in the Park ; in a few minutes she returned 

 breathlessly ; she had met a park-keeper and he 

 had told her the news. Five minutes more we 

 were both in the park ; had caught the same 

 inspired park-keeper, and had fallen upon him 

 simultaneously. 



" Is it true ? How do you know ? Who told 

 you ? " 



