To-day I got a big stock of things to eat. I count my time not by days, but by loaves of bread and dozens of hard-boiled eggs.


—This book goes out into the world, not to be judged, but to judge!


July 1st.

You do not hear much from a man in a battle, just now and then a cry.

I have gone in to seek out my last enemy—the last demon who has defied me. I shall close with him—I shall have the thing over with—I will no longer be haunted and made sick.

—I believe I shall do it all in one day. I don't think I can lay it aside.


July 3d.