1915

{Illustration: “COUNT VON HEMELSTEIN,” THE AMERICAN SAID LAZILY,
“I WAS JUST THINKING WHAT A STUNNING BOOK-COVER YOU WOULD
MAKE FOR A CHEAP NOVEL.” Drawn by Clarence F. Underwood.}
(Illustration not available in this edition)

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO MY REAL FRIENDS, WHO MAY LOVE IT.
WHILE THE OTHERS IT MAY BORE;
TO MY ENEMIES, GOD BLESS THEM,
THO’ THEY SPLUTTER, MORE AND MORE.

CONTENTS

L. P. M.

CHAPTER I. — THE MAN AND THE HOUR

CHAPTER II. — THE ONE-MAN SECRET

CHAPTER III. — CROSSING WITH ROYALTY

CHAPTER IV. — THE FIRST REBUFF

CHAPTER V. — ECHOES FROM THE WILHELMSTRASSE

CHAPTER VI. — A RUSTY OLD CANNON-BALL

CHAPTER VII. — DIPLOMACY WINS

CHAPTER VIII. — THE SPY-DRIVEN TAXI. —

CHAPTER IX. — BUCKINGHAM PALACE

CHAPTER X. — HE MEETS THE KING

CHAPTER XI. — THE DEIONIZER

CHAPTER XII. — FIRST SHOW OF FORCE

CHAPTER XIII. — “THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING!”

CHAPTER XIV. — THE ROYAL TEA-TABLE

CHAPTER XV. — SURROUNDED BY SOLDIERS

CHAPTER XVI. — A DINNER AT THE BRITZ

CHAPTER XVII. — THE VOICE IN THE TELEPHONE

CHAPTER XVIII. — IN THE HANDS OF THE GERMANS

CHAPTER XIX. — THE GERMAN POINT OF VIEW

CHAPTER XX. — GENERAL VON LICHTENSTEIN

CHAPTER XXI. — HE INSTALLS HIS WIRELESS

CHAPTER XXII. — KAFFEE KLATSCH

CHAPTER XXIII. — THE TWO-WHEELED MYSTERY

CHAPTER XXIV. — DER KAISER

CHAPTER XXV. — THE MASQUERADER

CHAPTER XXVI. — TWO REMARKABLE MEN

CHAPTER XXVII. — ALL CARDS ON THE TABLE

CHAPTER XXVIII. — WHERE IS IT?

CHAPTER XXIX. — THE DIFFERENCE OF THEIR STATIONS

CHAPTER XXX. — THEY CALL FOR ASSISTANCE

CHAPTER XXXI. — “SIT DOWN, YOU DOG!”

CHAPTER XXXII. — L. P. M.

CHAPTER XXXIII. — YACHTING IN THE AIR

CHAPTER XXXIV. — THE ULTIMATUM

CHAPTER XXXV. — A LYING KING MAKES A NATION OF LIARS

CHAPTER XXXVI. — THINK OF IT! WHY NOT?

L. P. M.