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{{HPB-CW-comment|[Writing about the Founders’ trip in Northern India, in April, 1879, Col. H. S. Olcott says (Old Diary Leaves, II, 77): “At Saharanpore the Ârya Samâjists welcomed us most cordially and brought us gifts of fruits and sweets. The only drawback to our pleasure was the presence of the Police spy and his servant, who watched our movements, intercepted our notes, read our telegrams, and made us feel as if we had stumbled within reach of the Russian Third Section by mistake.” Col. Olcott protested vigorously to the Bombay Government through the United States Consul against this spying. Eventually the Viceregal authorities put a stop to it, as related by H.P.B. herself on pp. 140-43 of the present volume.—Compiler.]}} | {{HPB-CW-comment|[Writing about the Founders’ trip in Northern India, in April, 1879, Col. H. S. Olcott says (Old Diary Leaves, II, 77): “At Saharanpore the Ârya Samâjists welcomed us most cordially and brought us gifts of fruits and sweets. The only drawback to our pleasure was the presence of the Police spy and his servant, who watched our movements, intercepted our notes, read our telegrams, and made us feel as if we had stumbled within reach of the Russian Third Section by mistake.” Col. Olcott protested vigorously to the Bombay Government through the United States Consul against this spying. Eventually the Viceregal authorities put a stop to it, as related by H.P.B. herself on pp. 140-43 of the present volume.—Compiler.]}} | ||