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Rh Gandhi, and chimed the privilege o{ helping him. His devotion in nursing these plague patients at great peril to his life, was in keeping with the fine and persistent service which he still renders in the Home-land, where he has devoted his unique talents ungrudgingly to the Indian cause.

The trouble continued for about a month. The number of deaths, during that time, amounted to one hundred and thirteen in Johannesburg, including twenty-five whites, fifty-five Indians, four "coloured" people, and twenty-nine natives. Its force, however, was broken by the prompt measure of those critical days. Meanwhile, Johannesburg went on its way, almost unconscious of its danger, quite insensible to the services rendered by a handful of Indians.

Those who know think of another story:

"Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man."

History repeats itself.