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iq3 BULGARIA ATTACKS HER ALLIES [cii. xii.
the situation and the measures to be taken to preserve
order in the town. After a short discussion we agreed
to telegraph to our respective Governments to suggest
that they should beg the Rumanians to occupy Sofia
with their troops if the town was really threatened
with the entry of the Greeks or with an inroad of
mutinous soldiers. It was to be distinctly understood
in this case that the Rumanians were to confine
themselves to keeping order, without interrupting the
working of the Bulgarian Government.
The day after this meeting we were invited to go
and see the King in the evening. Evidently His Majesty
wished to review the situation with us. Our arrival at
the Palace was originally fixed for seven o’clock and
then postponed till ten. The night was dark; a strong,
cold wind was blowing from the Vitosch Pass,1 when
one after the other we glided like conspirators into the
dimly-lit courtyard of the Konak of Sofia and entered
the Palace. Up half-dark staircases and corridors we
threaded our way and were shown into a room just as
dimly lit, where we were received by the private
secretary, Dobrovitch, with his customary black coat
and amiable giggle, who begged us to wait patiently for
a few minutes as the King was still conferring with his
Ministers. We were all disposed to be indulgent, and
we lit cigarettes and began to talk in whispers. The
clock struck eleven, then twelve, and still the King did
not send for us. We had all imagined that he had
summoned us so as to receive us in his study, and there
laying aside all etiquette, so superfluous at such a time,
to discuss with us the critical position of the country
and the capital. And we all were disposed to listen
attentively and to help him with our advice and our
intercession with our Governments. But this protracted
waiting began to annoy us; we considered that Ferdinand
1 The summer of 1913 was in general extremely cold, and this was
very much felt in the high plain of Sofia where the summer evenings are
always cool.
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