6/31 "Not a really dangerous man among them." "Ah! There you are! I might have expected it!" Eisernstein threw up his hands in a gesture of contempt rather than despair. Nobody cares for our sleepless agony of mind. Nobody cares how or what we suffer until afterward, when there will be polite expressions of regret, which the survivors will assess at a true valuation! It is the same wherever we turn. Last night--at half-past one in the morning--a committee of us, every one American, Called at the American consulate to tell our consul of our danger. The consul was unsympathetic in the last degree. |