And the Budapest People’s Commissioners,—the men who had so often emphasized ‘the unparalleled cowardice of the bourgeoisie’ and abused our heroes and our martyrs,—when the assassin’s dagger slipped from their grasp, packed in feverish haste the foreign currency which they had ‘sequestered’ for their own private use from the Austro-Hungarian Bank, and, boarding their special train, fled in a panic to a milder climate,—away from this plundered, devastated and unhappy country.[15] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _BY THE SAME AUTHOR_ Crown 8vo. 6s. net. each THE OLD HOUSE: A Novel STONECROP: A Novel Demy 8vo. (uniform with this volume) 12s. 6d. net. AN OUTLAW’S DIARY Part I Revolution with a Foreword by The Duke of Northumberland. Published by PHILIP ALLAN & CO. ----- Footnote 1: A photograph of St. Stephen’s Crown (the Holy Hungarian crown) is reproduced at page 162 of Part I of this work. Footnote 2: A portrait of Böhm is reproduced at page 196 of Part I of this book. Footnote 3: Francis Rákoczi, the leader of the Kuruc rising against the Hapsburgs, in the early years of the 18th Century, a national hero, is buried in the Cathedral of Kassa. His body was transferred from Turkey to Kassa in 1907. [Transl.] Footnote 4: It is a common belief in Hungary (and in many other countries) that if a murderer approaches the corpse of his victim the blood will flow from the fatal wound. [Transl.] Footnote 5: For a further account of him _see pp. 228–229_. Footnote 6: The Publishers of this volume are greatly indebted to Dr. Oscar Szollosy and to the Editor of _The Anglo-Hungarian Review_ for permission to include this account of some of the chief actors in The Terror. Footnote 7: The People’s Commissioner for Public Education, George Lukács, was the son of a wealthy banker, and was persuaded to join the Communists by the crack-brained daughter of an extremely rich Budapest solicitor, who subsequently assisted Béla Kún and his associates to counterfeit banknotes, till finally she was thrashed publicly (in the street) with a hunting crop by an embittered ‘bourgeois.’ A portrait of Lukács is reproduced at page 106 of this volume. A certain Ministerial Councillor, Stephen Láday, once declared emphatically to the writer of this article that Communism might be very pretty in theory, but was, in his opinion, impossible in practice. Two months later Láday became a Bolshevik People’s Commissioner. Footnote 8: For a portrait of Béla Kún, see vol. i., p. 160 of this work, where a further account of him is given. Footnote 9: