Chapter 25 A
Change of IdentityI now approach the crucial
portion of my narrative.
The incidents already dealt with, though not without a certain
interest, perhaps, for those who value exact information about
political events, are comparatively unimportant, and have been
given here chiefly in order to inspire confidence in what
follows.
At all events, their truth is not likely to be disputed, and I
have not thought it necessary, therefore, to insist on every
corroborative detail.
But I am now about to enter on what must be considered debatable
ground.
I had taken the little house on the Alexander Quay, as the
reader will have guessed, as a post of observation from which to
watch the proceedings of the Russian Ministry of Marine, more
particularly with regard to the fleet u
