Category: Biographies
On March 29th, 1916, the steamer _Finland_ was warped into its Hudson River dock and I hurried down the gang plank. I was not alone. Agents of the United States Department of Justice had met me at Quarantine; and a man from Scotland Yard was there also—a man who had attended m...
On March 29th, 1916, the steamer _Finland_ was warped into its Hudson River dock and I hurried down the gang plank. I was not alone. Agents of the United States Department of Ju...
2. CHAPTER II.Gross Lichterfelde! As I write, it all comes back to me clearly, in spite of the full years that have passed—this, my first home in Berlin. A huge pile of buildings set in a sub...
3. CHAPTER III.In spite of my dreams and extreme self-satisfaction, I found the atmosphere of Gross Lichterfelde as drab and monotonous as ever it had been before my masquerade. Discipline sit...
4. CHAPTER IV.If at any time in this story of my life, I have given the impression that accident did not play a very important part in the work of myself and other secret agents, I have done...
5. CHAPTER V.It was in Paris that my next adventure occurred. I had gone there following one of those agreeably indefinite conversations with my tutor which always preceded some especial und...
6. CHAPTER VI.I must leave Europe behind me now and go on to the period embraced in the last five years. A private soldier in your United States Army—the victim of an attempt at assassination...
7. CHAPTER VII._War. I re-enter the German service and am appointed aide to Captain von Papen. The German conception of neutrality and how to make use of it. The plot against the Welland Canal._
8. CHAPTER VIII.It was peaceful sailing in those early days of the war, and our ship, the _Duca d’Aosta_, reached Genoa with no mishap. I had but one moment of trepidation on the voyage, for on...
9. CHAPTER IX.Back in Berlin, I sought out Major Köhnemann, and together we spent many days in planning my future course of action. It was a war council in effect, for the object toward which...
10. CHAPTER X.In the long record of German intrigue in the United States one fact stands out predominantly. If you consider the tremendous ramifications of the system that Germany has built,...
11. CHAPTER XI.Those were almost the last words spoken to me when I left Germany in 1914, upon my ill-fated mission to England. I had in my pocket at the moment detailed memoranda of instructi...
12. CHAPTER XII.As I write these last few pages three clippings from recent newspapers lie before me on my desk. One of them tells of the new era of good feeling that exists between the governm...