New-York tribune., 1900-07-05
SPYING N SOUTH AFRICA.
THE DINKEL FAMILY's SUCCESSFUL VENT
URFS

Julian Ralph in The London Mail.
The lights OF the crowded and busy hotel bathed
the broad stOOp where forty men and women IN
evening dress chatted over iced beverages and
The great windows of the drawing room flung out
the strongest radiance and behind them small
company listened TO a spirited ballad by the most
Beyond the stoop the hotel lights and the paler
cleaning Of tho moon melted together among the
where deep shadows checkered the yellow drive
This was in cape Town-a fair and enticng cor
ner IN a shabby, dusty city, corner all loveliness
WIeIe the sinister sila9w u ana but halI
Mother" said a golden haired German maiden,
Captain Simple Of the Wessex Fusillers.''
Yes, darling; cover up warmly dear-but as
decked matron turned again to her t6e-a-tete with
2cer IN me 94g % Of 1ef s{oqB Baured as
again passes her mother on her way TO walk In the
Hes taking a little something with, Colonel
Stonehead. in the smoking room CARING dont dis
Beers, and II you go and lombard ColesoeTg ana DO
ons and homsesthev viii become very cruel and
bitter They will kin all their prisoners and they
R' we o s 16 do "96nE Of ePsaDs Ps You have
heard that some general is asking permission to
shell shell coesberg? Ah, dear me-! am 50 afraid he
viii do it-and we shall have the whole colony to
my dear madam Major Candoqr, replied Il
thing that is going on The gfa9FGal y 9I t6ns
"oh, am am so gad' the matron answered. u was
ube beaGtifu night it is Major But i is chilly
If you will excuse me- | VIII take son something TO put
cold. Won't you join my husband and the Colonel
In the smoking room the husband, Mr.; Dnkel,
has assured Colonel Stonehe9d that the B9ers are are
~ tl Hyin a made them like boison he says Il
Ta p sha51t dvyentv Years nit EN- una know dem
like pook. Shoot dem down. is vot l say; kill
oSIt The NC Colonel delighted with these sentiments
quickly end the war. He says that the Field Mar
shal viii presently be joined by French and an
waV of EnsIin and Ramdam The date of the
movement he knows but may not tell. though 1t IS
out in the quiet garden, where the broad banana
against the softly luminous sky, the captain and
the maiden strolling
sexes make when Cupid's conditions are, all, full
edand they are alone % t9gether-and the the lights
in uniform. and she suggests Beauty linked with
No she said, you must not; let me walk by
myself We do not know each other well enough
and we may never see each other again"
IN not going ,H Ta0SG 3o he said nst start
morrow If Lord Roberts moves forward sun
word tq-day d4s that ,d he starts in Just
Truy-on honor-he does not start until week
But. now, we must go indoors. 1t is really too
An hour 1 few u and 10 o'clock came The Dinkels
met In the room of the father and mother Vot
and next Of his daughter, SO he said, .'Vot
blamed fools! Dey viii gif away their stomachs II
you ask them. You found owd dot Colesberg don't
get bomparded. | found owd dot French choins
Lord Ropperts. und. my leeIle darling you make
M luf TO dot silly cabtain and he told you choost
gif our friends In Pretoria all der news DONOR
row.
This is kodak snapshot of one foreign family
in hotel in Cape Town
But there many foreign families in several
hotels in that city.
Come up TO the front If ,>ou wish 10 see how
other spies work