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438 EVIL OMENS IN PETROGRAD [chap. xxii.
understand your state of mind," I said to him. " 1 know
why and for whom my son has died; and you do not
even know if the death of yours is a holocaust
offered to your country, or if it is a useless sacrifice."
Weeping bitterly the poor Count pressed my hand.
The excellent M. Pokrovsky also hastened to visit
us, and his sincere sympathy with our sorrow touched
us deeply. I went a second time to see Sazonoff, who
was staying temporarily almost next door to us. I
told him about Protopopoff’s last journey through
Sweden and his meeting with Warburg, which had just
got into the papers and been vehemently criticised by
the Novoye Vremya. " But Protopopoff told me all that
on his return here, and I saw absolutely nothing to
object to in it," said Sazonoff. " He has brought back
on the whole some very interesting impressions of
his journey, and the last time that I was at G.H.Q. I
earnestly recommended the Emperor to send for him
and to make him relate these impressions. I have not
heard since whether His Majesty has acted on my
suggestion."
In spite of the above-mentioned opinion of Sazonoff’s
on the Protopopoff-Warburg incident, 1 thought it
necessary—on the advice of an experienced friend—to
go and see the Vice-President of the Duma and to
discuss it with him. Protopopoff knew nothing of the
cruel sorrow which had befallen us, and uttered many
expressions of sympathy.
I then embarked on the question which had taken
me to him. "The newspapers," I said, "have been
making such a fuss about your meeting with Warburg
that I consider it imperative—with your assistance—to
refresh my memory with regard to your last stay in
Stockholm." I recapitulated all that he had said and all
that I had replied to him. " Is that right ? " " Perfectly ;
that was exactly it," was his answer. The speaker no
longer betrayed any of the same agitation as in
Stockholm. He rather seemed to be taciturn, pensive
and absent-minded. He said he was expecting to be
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