"What did you do with me?" Bishop Alexander and Father Kokhannik replied: "Thank God, you are still living and don't worry about anything else—we have not forsaken you and shall not lose sight of your interests." Hartz also came and said apologetically that it was impossible to set me free sooner, and he added: "It was all for the best, because together with you the Mission, the Consulate,
To my question, as to how I could get along without money, and the Embassy would have been betrayed. Good sport—you knew how to keep your promise."
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Metropolitan Ewdokim Meszersky, a Striver
for a Clean Russian Church.
When I told Bishop Alexander that I wished to see Archbishop Platon, he was rather frightened and asked, looking straight at me: "Don't you know that Archbishop Platon and Archpresbyter Slunin left for Russia?"
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