The Adventures of a British Count

I have concealed my destination on leaving England as also the point from which I began my more serious and difficult journey. My chief consolation lies in the fact that truth bears its own impress, and that my story will carry conviction by reason of the internal evidences for its accuracy. No one who is himself honest will doubt my being so. With this hope I now publish my adventures, but I do so with great reluctance, for I fear that my story would be doubted unless I tell the whole of it.