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
