KING CHARLES ” 36 COUNT KÁROLYI AND HIS ENTOURAGE ” 50 THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT ” 58 “KÁROLYI STOOD ON THE STEPS” ” 60 SOLDIERS SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ” 62 JOSEPH POGÁNY ” 70 COUNTESS KÁROLYI ” 72 FIUME ” 78 “THE TRAGEDY OF EVERY RUINED HOME” ” 86 “ON THE ROOFS OF THE INCOMING TRAINS” ” 96 HELTAI’S SAILORS ” 120 THE CROWN PRINCE ” 122 “ON ALL THE ROADS ... HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE IN FLIGHT” ” 124 QUEEN ZITA ” 128 “A TINY SZÉKLER VILLAGE” ” 132 JOHN HOCK ” 138 SIGMUND KUNFI ” 140 BÉLA KÚN ” 160 THE HUNGARIAN CROWN ” 162 A COMMUNIST ORATOR ” 176 THE VALLEY OF THE GARAM ” 186 WILLIAM BÖHM ” 196 BÉLA KÚN ADDRESSING THE CROWD ” 214 “THERE WERE PROCESSIONS EVERYWHERE” ” 258 THE ROYAL CASTLE, BUDA ” 260 COUNT KÁROLYI DISTRIBUTING HIS LANDS ” 270 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. 1 II. 19 III. 34 IV. 55 V. 69 VI. 85 VII. 101 VIII. 119 IX. 135 X. 153 XI. 171 XII. 189 XIII. 208 XIV. 225 XV. 239 XVI. 256 XVII. 274 AN OUTLAW’S DIARY CHAPTER I _October 31st, 1918._ The town was preparing for the Day of the Dead, and white chrysanthemums were being sold at the street corners. A mad, black crowd carried the flowers with it. This year there will not be any for the cemeteries: the quick adorn themselves with that which belongs to the dead. Flowers of the graveyard, symbols of decay, white chrysanthemums. A town beflowered like a grave, under a hopeless sky. Such is Budapest on the 31st of October, 1918.