“It is all directed from Berlin. The personal source of all German espionage is the Kaiser. He is the supreme master spy.”
“Where have you learned these things, Thessa?” he asked in a troubled voice.
“I have learned, Garry.”
“Are you—a spy?”
“No.”
“Have you been?”
“No, Garry.”
“Then how——”
“Don’t ask me; just listen. There are men here in your city who are here for no good purpose. I do not mean to say that merely because they seek also to injure me—destroy me, perhaps,—God knows what they wish to do to me!—but I say it because I believe that your country will declare war on Germany some day very soon. And that you ought to watch these spies who move everywhere among you!
“Germany also believes that war is near. And this is why she strives to embroil your country with Japan and Mexico. That is why she discredits you with Holland, with Sweden. It is why she instructs her spies here to set fires in factories and on ships, blow up powder mills and great industrial plants which are manufacturing munitions for the Allies of the Triple Entente.