“‘When the excitement aroused by our new meeting had abated, and when we had unpacked all the things my young friend had brought on camels – among which by the way were some of the famous contemporary European what are called “Roentgen apparatus”, almost fifty “elements of Bunsen”, several “ACCUMULATORS”, and several bales of different materials for “electric wiring” – we began to talk quietly and from what he related about himself I learned with great grief the following: “‘Several years before, when on account of higher World-laws surrounding conditions and circumstances became such that scarcely anywhere on the Earth did people have any security for the morrow or any settled dwelling place, he suddenly noticed the appearance in his beloved wife of just that terrible disease, the search for a cure for which had lately been one of the chief aims of his existence. BTG XLI