After spending an uncomfortable night there, I went on to Copenhagen. Men were drilling everywhere, and the people were saying that the Danes must help England. There were tales of an insurrection in Finland—I afterwards found that the Finnish people were extremely loyal to Russia—and that Libau had been taken by the Germans, which also was untrue, I managed to get second class ticket for Stockholm and arrived there with 85 in my Pocket, and very little prospect of obtaining any more, being quite unable to communicate with my friends or relatives, or receive letters from them. I tramped about the streets for the best part of a day, and had a little bread and milk for refreshment. After much persuasion, Cook's agent there agreed to exchange my first class ticket for the return journey vid Siberia for a second class railway ticket which would take me to St. Petersburg, and the balance in cash. Then there was another struggle for a place in the train. Stockholm station was piled with luggage and packed with people, fighting for food, and for the best places in the train. For three nights and two days, during the journey through Sweden, I had to put up with a seat on part of a small wooden bench, in a carriage crowded with fifty or sixty passengers, whose conduct was unspeakable. The train was not once cleaned during the whole journey, and its atmosphere was almost unbearable, while the attitude of the Swedish officials was such as to add to the general discomfort.
German Spy Mania, I left the train at Lulea and went by boat to Tomnea, on the Finnish frontier. Here we were well treated by the Finnish people but the only place I could find for a night's rest was on a straw mattress in a passage in one of the schools, One man sent me nearly flying even before could get this place. After spending two nights at Tornea, I took train for St. Petersburg.
On this train there were half a dozen Russian ladies who had been temporarily driven mad by the wretched treatment they had suffered. Two of them had been arrested as spies. I have nothing to complain of as to my own treatment in Germany, though I am still wondering how I missed being arrested. The Germans seemed to lose their heads for a while with regard to Generated fo
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