About 15 o'clock today, I was summoned by the Supreme
Commander-in-Chief, Kerensky. He was very agitated and nervous.
"General," said he, "you have betrayed me—your Cossacks here positively say that they will arrest me and turn me over to the sailors."
"Yes," I answered, "there is talk about it, and I know that you have no sympathizers here at all."
"But are the officers, too, of the same mind?"
"Yes, the officers are especially dissatisfied with you."
"Then, what am I to do? I'll have to commit suicide."
"If you are an honest man, you will proceed immediately to Petrograd under a flag of truce and report to the Revolutionary Committee, where you will talk things over, as the head of the Government."
"Yes, I'll do that, General!"
"I will furnish a guard for you and will ask that a sailor accompany you."
"No, anyone but a sailor. Don't you know that Dybenko is here?"