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on the train in charge of a friendly, plausible youth named 

 Gilbert. Reaching a hotel in San Francisco and opening what 

 she supposed to be her valise, she found that a change had been 

 made, the Zimmermann note was gone, and she was left with a 

 bag of waste paper. 



A further bit of evidence in favor of the genuineness of the 

 diary is found in the account of a subsequent meeting in Europe 

 between the Countess and Har Dayal, prominent as a revolution- 

 ary' leader from the Punjab. Having been for a time a graduate 

 student at Stanford, formerly at Oxford, he to some extent 

 carried on propaganda among the Hindus in California. After 

 the war broke out, he made his way to Germany and, so it was 

 alleged b}'^ a fellow-countryman, served the German govern- 

 ment as inciter of rebellion among the Mohammedan subjects 

 of Great Britain. Apparently his purpose was to free India 

 through German intervention, but in 1918 he made a public 

 recantation, casting his lot with the British, with whom, after 

 all, the future of his country must lie. 



Among British university men whom I found like- Dickinson, 

 minded with myself were G. Lowes Dickinson of Cam- ^^^^'^^' 

 bridge, a writer of singularly pure and effective Husseii 

 English, and Graham Wallas of the University of 

 London, an accomplished student of civic affairs. 

 Bertrand Russell of Cambridge, the distinguished 

 mathematical scholar, also a brilliant, fearless, and 

 absolutely sincere political critic, I never met, to my 

 great regret. 



With the scientific staff of the British Museum I Museum 

 now renewed my acquaintance. Dr. Giinther, aged ^-''^"'" 

 and nearly blind, received me as always most cor- 

 dially. The expert in Ichthyology, C. Tate Regan, a 

 Cambridge man, was as usual busily and successfully 

 engaged on the great collections; Boulenger occupied 

 himself mainly with a wealth of material from the 



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