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 last two claimants ended by having a hair pulling match. With great difficulty we finally succeeded in settling with all the three fiancees of Father Johna. They calmed down after they received their money. Father Slunin also received a gift from Mailiasewich for both the Archbishop and Bishop. What become of the gift, I don't know. Father Slunin returned to New York, and I—to the Swiato-Tikhon Monastery where Bishop Alexander happened to be at the time.



He inquired about the "inquest" and asked me to keep an eye on the fraternity that evening.

Soon a coach appeared in the court with a woman in the attire of a Roman-Catholic nun. She went direct to Bishop Alexander, and the Abbot Nikon immediately ordered the monks to go to church. They did so. One of them remarked to me on the way: "It would be quite interesting to overhear the conversatoin [sic] between the Greek