THE
SECRET SPRING
BY
PIERRE BENOIT
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1920
CONTENTS
[A FOREWORD]
[PROLOGUE]
CHAPTER [I]
CHAPTER [II]
CHAPTER [III]
CHAPTER [IV]
CHAPTER [V]
CHAPTER [VI]
CHAPTER [VII]
CHAPTER [VIII]
[EPILOGUE]
[A FOREWORD]
Long have I hesitated to give back to Life the legacy left me by Death. But at last, reflecting that Lieutenant Vignerte and She whom he loved have vanished into the eternal shades, I have decided that there is no longer any reason to keep silence about the tragic events staged in the German court of Lautenburg-Detmold in the months immediately preceding the Great War.