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angry cackle and cursing among the boatmen. In the confusion I felt him/it
safe to sit on. Nobody paid me attention. All were
taken part in a wild run for the staircase of the Tennessee to arrive and to climb on. ME
climbed above with the rest, and when, on the bridge, an officer required,
my passport, I handed a daring forehead and I asked to him to tell Captain Decker
what the Mr. Aaronsohn desired to see him/it.
Ten minutes later me I was standing in the box of the captain. There I explained mine
history, and it hurt on asking to him if, under the circumstances, mine "first
it is probable that papers" doesn't entitle me to protection. As I spoke me I could see the
it fights that was following inside him. When he responded it was
you explain, with the maximum gentleness that if he took me his/her ship it on board
it would be to lose his/her word of honor to the Turkish Government, his
appointments to only take city of neutral countries; what he was not able
an American considers me on the strength of my first papers; and what some
escape is probable that such conducts to serious complications for him and for his
Government. There was not well, nothing for me to do but to withdraw and to go
back to Jaffa to face test for an attempt to escape.
When I reached again the bridge I found him/it swarming with refugees, many of
who knew me and it came above to congratulate me on to get away. I was able
only shakes my head and with death in my heart comes down the Tennessee
staircase. It didn't now interest that boat that I have taken. Some boatman was anxious
enough to take me for some cents. As I sat in the boat, every hit of
the oars that bring me more next to the beach and to what I felt it was
inevitable imprisonment, a great bitterness inflated my heart. I was tired,
suddenly it got tired of all the dangers and tests for which I was going through
the last months. From depression I sank in the desperation and out of the desperation
come, strange to say, a great serenity, the serenity of the desperation.
On the bench I met me with Hassan Bey, commander of the police that was