As I look back now on the sensational events of the past months
since the great European War began, it seems to me as if there had
never been a period in Craig Kennedy's life more replete with
thrilling adventures than this.

In fact, scarcely had one mysterious event been straightened out
from the tangled skein, when another, even more baffling, crowded
on its very heels.

As was to have been expected with us in America, not all of these
remarkable experiences grew either directly or indirectly out of
the war, but there were several that did, and they proved to be
only the beginning of a succession of events which kept me busy
chronicling for the Star the exploits of my capable and versatile
friend.

Altogether, this period of the war was, I am sure, quite the most
exciting of the many series of episodes through which Craig has
been called upon to go. Yet he seemed to meet each situation as it
arose with a fresh mind, which was amazing even to me who have
known him so long and so intimately.

As was naturally to be supposed, also, at such a time, it was not
long before Craig found himself entangled in the marvelous spy
system of the warring European nations. These systems revealed
their devious and dark ways, ramifying as they did tentacle-like
even across the ocean in their efforts to gain their ends in
neutral America. Not only so, but, as I shall some day endeavor to
show later, when the ban of silence imposed by neutrality is
raised after the war, many of the horrors of the war were brought