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<p>[Page 98]</p><p>lives a few cells down, and we were chatting quite amenably until the talk turned to Mr Ermakeil. Franzen really hates this guy, and maybe he has good reason; while I sought to make excuses for his demeanour and his carelessness in money matters. The fact is that for some time now, E. has been getting a monthly subsidy of £1 from the relief fund that Franzen and I had been holding in trust but which, by the way, we had passed on in February, when we thought our release was imminent. Franzen now denied that I had asked him for his approval of the subsidy for E. But from the beginning, in Singapore already, I had made it my rule to always act in concert with him, which Franzen flatly denied with the words “that’s not true”. I asked him to take it back, trying to convince him that I had surely consulted him about E. since I had always consulted him on any other payment, which he admitted I did. Yet he repeated his insult, one word led to another, and his behaviour in the next</p>