JANUARY 24.—­I have been several times to the prison, and have seen my husband.  He looks thin, but his face is much rested.  He was greatly distressed on my first visit at the change in my appearance, which I declared was most ungrateful, as I had put on my best clothes for the occasion.  His mouth showed a tendency to grow square at the corners; I had seen his children’s do the same a thousand times in our nursery, and I turned away to conceal my emotion.

The leaders are still kept apart from the other Reformers, a chalked line showing the margin of their liberty.  They are fairly comfortable in the Jameson Cottage.  It contains two tiny rooms; in one all four sleep, and the other is used for a sitting-room.  These are kept very clean and bright.  Mr. Farrar is housekeeper, and ‘tidies up’ with such vigour that his three comrades threaten to give up their lodgings and decamp.

‘Hang it all,’ says Mr. Phillips, ’we never sit down to a meal that George does not begin to sweep the floor’; ’And he takes our cups away and begins washing them before we’ve finished our coffee,’ complains the Colonel.  Mr. Farrar reproaches me for my husband’s want of order.  He says I have not trained him at all, which is quite the truth.  Each man has his chief treasures on a little shelf above his bed.  The three husbands have photographs of wife and children; Colonel Rhodes, the bachelor, a sponge-bag and pin-cushion.  Every day I find a short list of things which they want got for them.  It is many a long year since they had such simple desires:  bed-sheets and pillow-cases, a shade for their window, Dutch dictionary, and lead pencils.

JANUARY 25.—­The Reformers, with the exceptions of Messrs. Lionel Phillips, George Farrar, Colonel Rhodes, John Hays Hammond, and Percy Fitzpatrick, are released to-day on bail of ten thousand dollars each.  They are not permitted to leave Pretoria however.

JANUARY 27.—­Dr. Jameson has sailed on the ‘Victoria’ for England.  The Governor of Natal was hooted at Volksrust for congratulating President Kruger on his defeat of Jameson.

We are again in Pretoria.  I have asked for an interview with the President.

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     My First Prison Pass

     BEWIJS VAN TOEGANG

     Aan den Cipier van de Gevangenis te
     Pretoria.

     Verlof wordt verliend aan Mrs. Hammond
     en Miss Hammond en Lady de Wet

     Om den gevangene genaamd Hammond,
     Phillips, Rhodes en Farrar te bezoeken in
     Uwe tegenwoordigheid.

     Den 22nd—­1—­1896.

VI

Sir James Sivewright said, as I left my rooms for the President’s house, ’I am glad that you are going.  You will find a man with a rough appearance but a kind heart.’  Mr. Sammy Marx accompanied me.