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Chapter 10 — Hempher's Final Confession As I sailed back from my missions in the East, I carried with me a burden I had not expected. I had done what my Ministry ordered. I had found Muhammad of Najd, nurtured him, corrupted him, and set him on the path to becoming an instrument of British policy. I had surveyed the Shiite heartlands and reported their vulnerabilities. I had identified the cracks in the Ottoman wall. And yet — the months I spent with Ahmed Efendi in Istanbul never fully left m