I was supposed to play a speechless rôle and leave everything to my escort. This I did, although more than once my heart jumped when a guard seemed to scrutinize me closely, and now and then I had to suppress an impulse to laugh when the Colonel, in reply to questions, said that I was an Englishwoman returning home. It was dark when I was ferried to the transport, and everything went off without mishap. But that was not the end of the adventure. The transport had to remain for another day in the harbour, and it was expected that the Soviet would search it for me. To baffle all attempts to discover me I was placed in a cabin, the entrance and all approaches to which were guarded. Nobody was allowed to come near the room, all inquirers being told that an important German general was detained there on his way to an American prison camp. Even Lieutenant Filippov did not know of the trick and was greatly worried over my non-arrival as the hour for the departure of the ship drew near. If any Bolshevik emissary was sent on board the vessel to look for me, he was stopped in front of a certain cabin by American soldiers and informed that no one would be permitted to get within so many feet of the imprisoned enemy general. When the anchors of the _Sheridan_ were raised and the ship began to move, I came out of the cabin, to the liveliest merriment of everybody who had expected to see a stern Teuton general emerge from the door. I was free! It was April 18, 1918, when I left Russian soil for the first time in my life. Under the American flag, on an American transport, I was heading for that wonderful land--America--carrying in my breast the message of the Russian peasant-soldier to the Allies: “Help Russia to release herself from the German yoke and become free--in return for the five million lives that she has sacrificed for your safety, the security of your liberties, the preservation of your own lands and lives!” _Printed in Great Britain by_ Butler & Tanner _Frome and London_ Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation errors have been fixed. Page 21: “be begged my forgiveness” changed to “he begged my forgiveness” “Once drunk, be became” changed to “Once drunk, he became” Page 57: “offere little resistance” changed to “offered little resistance” Page 65: “ha broken down” changed to “had broken down” Page 85: “commande me to report” changed to “commanded me to report” Page 111: “as violently a on” changed to “as violently as on” Page 165: “burden of reponsibility” changed to “burden of responsibility” Page 180: “the oustanding factor” changed to “the outstanding factor” Page 222: “the anti-chamber” changed to “the ante-chamber” Page 233: “Who sigued it” changed to “Who signed it” Page 239: “one of the troup” changed to “one of the troop” Page 328: “in conbination with” changed to “in combination with”