"Will you allow me to send the warm clothing and blankets which I intended to distribute in the Camps?" she asked.
"Certainly, the more the better. Every facility will be afforded you in this."
Hansie felt happier after this conversation with the Governor, more convinced that something would be done to alleviate the sufferings in the Camps.
Now, if our heroine had been allowed to carry out her tour of inspection, she would have been out of "mischief's way" for many months, and much of what I am about to relate would not have taken place at all.
"Fair play is bonny play," and a breach of faith is bound, at some time or other, to be followed by undesirable consequences.
Hansie made up her mind to serve her country in another, perhaps better way, and in this she was assisted by the resistless hand of Fate, as we shall see in the following chapters.
That she was never "caught" is a marvel indeed, for she was most reckless of danger.
There were a number of intimate and trusted friends with whom she came into frequent contact, but who had no idea of the work which was being carried on at Harmony.
To these friends, however, she went with her "reliable war news" (more especially news brought into town by the spies, of the Boer victories) when anything of importance became known, and in time her friends found out that her news could always be depended upon as reliable indeed, although they had no inkling of the source whence it had been derived. There was danger of her becoming altogether too "cocksure," when she was one day pulled up sharply by the following occurrence: