quiver who had never trembled before a foe. I saw tears brimming in
eyes that had been dry when they had seen their dearest laid in
the grave....

"Everything was as silent as death when acting President Burger
took the pen in his hand. I looked at my watch; it was five minutes
past eleven on the 31st day of May in the year 1902.

"President Burger signed. President Steyn was not there. Our hearts
bled at the thought that he had been seized by a dangerous malady;
and yet it seemed to me that something was owed to that malady,
since it prevented the President of the Orange Free State from
doing what would have caused him the greatest pain in the world. He
had said once: 'To set my hand to a paper to sign away the
Independence of my people--that I shall never do.' Sad
circumstances, which he might then almost have called fortunate,
had brought it about that what he would not do, that he could not
do. The document was signed! All were silent in that room where so
much had been spoken."

We quote the terms of peace in full:--

"His Excellency General Lord Kitchener, and His Excellency Lord
Milner, on behalf of the British Government, and Messrs. M.T.
Steyn, J. Brebner, General C.R. De Wet, General C. Olivier, and
Judge J.B.M. Hertzog, acting as the Government of the Orange Free
State, and Messrs. S.W. Burger, F.W. Reitz, Generals Louis Botha,
J.H. de la Rey, Lucas Meyer, and C. Krogh, acting as the Government
of the South African Republic, on behalf of their respective
burghers, desirous to terminate the present hostilities, agree on