Chapter 15
The Advisor of Nicholas IIBy the second week in March I was back
in Petersburg.
On the long journey across Asia, I had had time to mature my
plans, with the advantage of knowing that the real enemy I had to
fight was neither M. Petrovitch nor the witching Princess Y——, but
the Power which was using them both as its tools.
It was a frightful thing to know that two mighty peoples, the
Japanese and Russians, neither of which really wished to fight each
other, had been locked in strife in order to promote the sinister
and tortuous policy of Germany.
So far, the German Kaiser had accomplished one-half of his
program. The second, and more important, step would be to bring
about a collision between the Russians and the English.
Thus the situation resolved itself into an u
