A nation at bay, what an American woman saw and did in suffering Serbia . EASTWARD HO! 135 When I told him that it was the Royal Order ofthe Serbian Red Cross, he looked rather flat andsaid that seeing the two-headed eagle on it hecould not think it anything but Hunnish. At midnight the train crawled into Naples andmy bed soon claimed me. In the morning I haddeveloped such a cold that my voice had nearlygone. I asked when the next boat was to leavefor Athens and the clerk said at noon that day,but I would have to apply for permission andthen wait ten days for advices from Rome. Isimply sighed
A nation at bay, what an American woman saw and did in suffering Serbia . EASTWARD HO! 135 When I told him that it was the Royal Order ofthe Serbian Red Cross, he looked rather flat andsaid that seeing the two-headed eagle on it hecould not think it anything but Hunnish. At midnight the train crawled into Naples andmy bed soon claimed me. In the morning I haddeveloped such a cold that my voice had nearlygone. I asked when the next boat was to leavefor Athens and the clerk said at noon that day,but I would have to apply for permission andthen wait ten days for advices from Rome. Isimply sighed Thats an old story, and soughtthe American Consul. Mr. White, the Consul, was most sympatheticbut he did not know what he could do exceptto send his secretary with me to the Prefectura,which he did. Mr. Garguilo first got mypassport viseed by the Greek Consul then tookme to the Italian authorities. We found our manin a big dingy room which was packed to suffoca-tion with Greek, Corsican and Sicilian seamen andI suspected that they each and all lived exclusivelyon garli
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