OCTOBER 22ND.

Finished!

I worked until half after midnight. I think it is a success. He said so;

but it has been such a struggle.

About half way through the evening, the electric lights went out. A

secretary lit four candles. On the telephone Trotsky learnt that the

lights had gone out all over the town.

I asked him hopefully if it could possibly be the outburst of a

counter-Revolution.

He laughed and asked if that was what I wanted.

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