home intimately to us.

I have, after mature consideration, decided that even at present
nothing but good can come from the publication at least of some
part of the strange series of adventures through which Kennedy and
I have just gone, especially those which might, if we had not
succeeded, have caused most important changes in current history.
As for the other adventures, no question can be raised about the
propriety of their publication.

At any rate, it came about that early in August, when the war
cloud was just beginning to loom blackest, Kennedy was
unexpectedly called into one of the strangest, most dangerous
situations in which his peculiar and perilous profession had ever
involved him.




CHAPTER I

THE WAR TERROR


"I must see Professor Kennedy--where is he?--I must see him, for
God's sake!"

I was almost carried off my feet by the inrush of a wild-eyed
girl, seemingly half crazed with excitement, as she cried out
Craig's name.