Excerpt from Twenty-Five Years in the Secret Service: The Recollections of a Spy

IT has seemed good 1n the Slght of many people that I should place on record, ln some permanent and acceptable form, the story of my eventful Me And so I am about to vxrlte a book The task 15 a dar1ng one - perhaps the most darlng of the many strange and unlocked-for 1nc1dents wh1ch have marked my career of adventure I approach It w1th no llght heart, but rather W1th a keen apprec1at10n of all lts d1fficult1es.

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