W. Bush, after handily defeating my old friend Garry Mauro,

Lebeziatnikov, solely in order to discuss with you the hopeless and

destitute position of your relative, Katerina Ivanovna (whose dinner I

was unable to attend), and the advisability of getting up something of

the nature of a subscription, lottery or the like, for her benefit.

You thanked me and even shed tears. I describe all this as it took

place, primarily to recall it to your mind and secondly to show you

that not the slightest detail has escaped my recollection. Then I took

a ten-rouble note from the table and handed it to you by way of