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Yours truly,
H. Le Caron

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
IN
THE SECRET SERVICE

The Recollections of a Spy

MAJOR HENRI LE CARON

With Portraits and Facsimiles

“No citizen has a right to consider himself as belonging to himself; but all ought to regard themselves as belonging to the State, inasmuch as each is a part of the State; and care for the part naturally looks to care for the whole.”

—Aristotle.

Third Edition

LONDON

WILLIAM HEINEMANN

1892

TWENTY-FIVE YEARSINTHE SECRET SERVICE

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
IN
THE SECRET SERVICE