Chapter 10.
The horror still lingering around Dr Jolivet's release clings to me like a leech and will not go away. A deep sense of failure leaves me limp at times, at others with a need for bloody acts of revenge. I made my way to La Petite Jérusalem, partly on foot. My main purpose (I thought at the time) was to tell Gustave that Hiltingen's men were keeping watch on him and that he should make plans to leave. Georg, too, is suddenly interested in him. Both men are constantly competing with each other, in a race for power that would be laughable if it hadn't sinister consequences. Gustave has already been warned by me, via the waves, of increased military activity by both the SS and the Wehrmacht, but stubborn as he is (or is it something else?) he decided to defy them both by spreading
