Take it immediately back.

If your telegram is here rightly understood, I cannot call your conduct good." It must be a hard heart that does not sympathise with Knappe in the hour when he received this document.

Yet it may be said that his troubles were still in the beginning.

Men had contended against him, and he had not prevailed; he was now to be at war with the elements, and find his name identified with an immense disaster.
One more date, however, must be given first.

It was on February 27th that Fritze formally announced martial law to be suspended, and himself to have relinquished the control of the police..