CHAPTER
I [HOW I BECAME A SECRET AGENT]
II [THE MAKING OF A SECRET AGENT]
III [INTO THE EAST]
IV [AT THE SUBLIME PORTE]
V [THE GRAND DUKE'S LETTER]
VI [THE INTRIGUE AT MONTE CARLO]
VII [THE KAISER PREVENTS A WAR]
VIII [THE ISOLATION OF FRANCE]
IX [IN THE BALKAN COUNTRY]
X [MY MISSION AND BETRAYAL IN ENGLAND]
XI [TO NEW YORK FOR ENGLAND]
XII ["THE GERMAN WAR MACHINE"]
XIII [ARMING FOR PEACE OR WAR]

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

Dr. Graves Secret Service Card
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Reproduction of a fateful piece of Count von Wedel's handwriting
General von Heeringen
General von Moltke

[I]

HOW I BECAME A SECRET AGENT

"O Jerum, jerum, jerum, quâ motatio rerum."

Half past three was heard booming from some clock tower on the twelfth day of June, 1913, when Mr. King, the Liberal representative from Somerset, was given the floor in the House of Commons. Mr. King proceeded to make a sensation.

He demanded that McKinnon Wood, the House Secretary for Scotland, reveal to the House the secrets of the strange case of Armgaard Karl Graves, German spy.

A brief word of explanation may be necessary. Supposed to be serving a political sentence in a Scotch prison, I had amazed the English press and people by publicly announcing my presence in New York City.

Mr. King asked if I was still undergoing imprisonment for espionage; if not, when and why I was released and whether I had been or would be deported at the end of my term of imprisonment as an undesirable alien.