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If I speak of myself in this story, it is because I have been deeply / involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most / extraordinary which this twentieth century will witness. Sometimes I / even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell / in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination. In my position / as head inspector in the federal police department at Washington, urged / on moreover by the desire, which has always been very strong in me, to / investigate and understand everything which is mysterious, I naturally / became much interested in these remarkable occurrences. And as I have / been employed by the government in various important affairs and secret / missions since I was a mere lad, it also happened very naturally that / the head of my department placed in my charge this astonishing / investigation, wherein I found myself wrestling with so many / impenetrable mysteries.
In the remarkable passages of the recital, it is important that you / should believe my word. For some of the facts I can bring no other / testimony than my own. If you do not wish to believe me, so be it. I / can scarce believe it all myself.