Category: Short Stories
Secret Service work is a joke in peace time and it is paid on joke rates. People talk of the fabulous sums of money which our Government spend on this kind of work, and I have no doubt a very large sum was spent every year, but it had to go a long way. Even Herr Kressler, of t...
Secret Service work is a joke in peace time and it is paid on joke rates. People talk of the fabulous sums of money which our Government spend on this kind of work, and I have n...
2. CHAPTER II.When I left London hurriedly, after the arrest of Alexander Koos, I must confess that my mind was greatly disturbed. I sat half the night in my sleeper, turning over all the cir...
3. CHAPTER III.In America, where the German and Austro-Hungarian population is so much larger than in any other foreign country, the work of my department is split up into three sections. Ther...
4. CHAPTER IV.In February, 1915, there occurred an event which I cannot pretend did not give me a certain amount of satisfaction, tragic and ever-to-be regretted as that event proved. I had c...
5. CHAPTER V.It is an axiom of mine that news has no value unless it is based upon somebody’s misfortune. Take your newspaper and scan its close-set columns. Is there any item in these many...
6. CHAPTER VI.By what strange fate, you may ask, did I, Heine, the chief of the Intelligence Bureau in England, escape the detection which was the fate of Koos, of Klein, of Posser and in a d...
7. CHAPTER VII.If there was a moral to these narratives which were originally written not so much for publication as to convey a true record of an adventurous career, to one who was inexpressi...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Theories and lofty idealism have ever been qualities identified with Germanism. We Germans despise duplicity and double dealing. In our bluff, hearty way, we are impatient with...
9. CHAPTER IX.I have often said that there is something grossly immoral about the profession of journalism. These men who live on the woes of others, who batten on the miseries of the world,...
10. CHAPTER X.It has often been remarked by impartially-minded thinkers that the German race produces more psychologists and more introspective logicians than any other race in the world. It...
11. CHAPTER XI.In the latter days of March, 1915, I had received a communication from Headquarters which was contained in a box of Dutch cigars forwarded to me from Rotterdam. It was written t...
12. CHAPTER XII.The British people, in their boastful, arrogant, and frivolous way, have a saying that the British do not know when they are beaten. This betrays their folly, their short-sighte...
13. CHAPTER XIII.I have often remarked to good friends of mine that there is evidence of the fact that Providence has a special interest in my welfare. We Germans are naturally a devout and reli...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Consider, dear friends, the embarrassing circumstances under which I found myself! Deported from England by a man whom I admit, is a person of considerable sagacity, though infi...
15. CHAPTER XV.It has frequently been observed by impartial and neutral observers, as, for example, the learned Professor Heinrich von Stosselkopf, of Zurich, the Italian Professor Emil Zonner...
16. CHAPTER XVI.I have mentioned in an earlier chapter an organization known as the Sons of Irish Freedom. I do not pretend that this is the name of the society which at one time threatened to...
17. CHAPTER XVII.If there is one quality which we Germans possess in a superlative quantity it is a sense of justice. We Germans may be proud, we may be too soft-hearted, we may be romantic, but...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Picture my feelings as I drove away from King’s Cross in a cab, with a fat suit-case at my feet. M. Missovitch had most mysteriously been struck by terror at the sight of me and...