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accordingly. He decided to make' a,judicious use of the foreigner's belief in "I he -parlous state of the British Empire" when threatened by the angry. Boer. The little •England Press had sown the seed^and }»)r---pordo'n saw that the time had. come for reaping .the'harvest. " , He ' inserted advertisements in French) putchrtnd'SwisS newspapers as follow-i : — \ .''Miff required by the British Govivri- ' m.ent (o go. to the Transvaal ; must W in .good health, have knowledge of 1 cr- - sps, and^-be able to ride well.. 'Pay 150 , -francfi <per* month. Send- 5 Ji|at|3S as preliminary fee for entrance to Mr Oor-. don, co. Shepherd, 23, Carnaby-street, Regent-street, London, S.W." > Then;' it may safely be presumed, Mr Gordon had a quiet little laugh to himsajf in -his quiet little, retreat in Marylebone, " and waited patiently in the sure and certain hope that the hungry Continental fish would make a rush for his bait. He. did not have to wait long. His 'idvartisemant appeared a^.week or so ago. Early, this week the replies, began to pour in. li a day or two the name of Gordon was better kno*n to the local postmen than that rf Petqr Robinson or Jay's. It seemed as if _th/ whole .Coritinerit had suddenly cis-. covered Mr Gordon and was sending l;m its congratulations. : Hundreds of letters arrived jrpin Peris and Amsterdam, Berlin and Basle, Antjwerp imA the Hague.* Frenchmen, Dutchmen," Germans, everybody longed to join this new regiment of. Gordon Highlandeis, and sent.thlir sf. to Mr Gordon, the agent of the British Government. On Tuesday , . no Sewer than 552 •foreigners intimated j -their ardent desire. to fight Great Britain s > battles 'at the enhanced rate of 5s a day. All Mr Gordon had twdo was to walk io 23, Carnaby-street,