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Chapter 31 The Kiel CanalIt was impossible to resist the conclusion suggested by the absence of the sixth submarine. I was not the only person who had been authorized, or rather instructed, to carry out the design against the Baltic Fleet. My august employer had thought it better to have two strings to his bow. Who, then, was the person by whom I had been anticipated? To this question an answer suggested itself which I was tempted to reject, but which haunted me, and would not be dismissed. The Princess Y—— had arrived in Berlin twelve hours before me. She had come, fully believing that Petrovitch was dead, and prepared to take his place. She had interviewed Finkelstein, as I knew. Was it not possible that she, also, had been received in the crypt at Potsdam, had been shown