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[ Aetat. 34-3° ] J O Y C E 419accused of the same offense.) She did not understand this phrase either.He confided also in one of the letters that he found it particularly provocative,when lying with a woman, to be afraid of being discovered.Gertrude Kaempffer did not regard these experiences as at all fetching.She tore up the letters, in case anyone should read them, and did notreply- They would not meet again until a year later, when, on her wayto visit friends in Zurich, she caught sight in a public place of an unhappy-looking,emaciated man and ventured closer to see if it were Joyce.He suddenly turned around, recognized her with warmth, and invitedher to a cafe. She could not go. Might she not come to the hotel laterfor a talk? Foreseeing embarrassment, she refused again. Joyce lookedpained, shook hands, and said goodbye. 45All that he had left was arecollection of having been aroused by a woman named Gertrude. It wasenough to bolster him in naming Gerty the pallid young woman thatBloom excites himself over in the Nausicaa episode. As he had said in GiacomoJoyce, 'Write it, dajiii^vou,w^ite4tUWbat else are you £Ood_fpr?'While staying at the pension, Joyce made occasional hurried trips toZurich, one on an errand of mercy. Jules Martin had the temperamentof a swindler but not the talent; through some luckless scheme he hadlanded himself in jail in Lausanne. Joyce had obligingly posted lettersfrom him to his family on appointed dates, so they would not guess theirson's whereabouts, and Martin blithely told him that he was gatheringexcellent material for a comedy from his prison experiences. Near theend of 1917 Joyce went to the Dutch consul in Zurich on Martin's behalf,and helped to arrange for the young man's release from prison to ahospital. Soon after he received a letter of gratitude from an Amsterdamgynecologist, de Vries, who revealed that Jules Martin was really his sonJuda, 'the black sheep of my family.' Martin presented Joyce with a gifthe had made for him in prison, a wooden box shaped like a family Biblewith 'My First Success. By James Joyce,' printed on the spine. 'Whenyou make money,' said Martin, 'you can conceal it in the box. Everybodywill think it's a book.' 46During the firstweeks at Locarno Joyce completed the three initialepisodes of Ulysses, the Telemachiad. He mailed them episode by episodeto Claud Sykes, who had agreed to type them if Joyce could findhim atypewriter. Joyce sent him to Rudolf Goldschmidt, who, besides being agrain merchant, was an official in an organization which assisted Austro-Hungarian subjects resident in Switzerland. Sykes found Goldschmidt inthis office with nothing to do; on learning that he was an emissary fromJoyce, Goldschmidt received him benevolently and lent the typewriter atonce. Herbert Gorman prints a verse composed by Joyce when he heardof the incident from Sykes; it was to the tune of the 'Amorous Goldfish'in Sidney Jones's The Geisha, and seems rather hard on the man wholent the typewriter: