Excerpt from Twenty-Five Years in the Secret Service: The Recollections of a SpyAnd so the Sltuat1on has remalned all through Forced by a varlety of c1rcumstances to play a part I never sought, but to whrch, for consc1entrous motlves, I not unwrlhngly adapted myself, I can admlt no shame and plead no regret By my actlon llvcs have been saved, commun1t1es have been benefited, and rlght and Juste allowed to trlumph, to the confu51on of law-breakers and would-be murderers And ln thls recollectron I have my consolatlon and my reward ttle else 1ndeed IS left me m the shape of e1ther the one or the other There IS a popular fictlon, I know.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.