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Chapter 28 On the TrackAs the really exciting moment of the protracted struggle drew near, I summoned all my energies to meet it. I alighted in Berlin armed only with two weapons, the passport made out in the name of Petrovitch, and a fairly accurate knowledge of the schemes, or at all events the hopes, of the German Government. From the first beginning of my long investigation, all the clues I had picked up had led steadily in one direction. The great disorganized Empire of the Czar’s, with its feeble-willed autocrat, its insubordinate grand dukes, its rival ministers pulling different ways, and its greedy officials whose country was their pocket, had been silently and steadily enfolded in the invisible web of German statecraft. The brilliant personality of Wilhelm II had m