One last touch in this drama: A few moments ago we left Von Wedell--ambitious, timorous Von Wedell--on the high seas bound for Norway. But Fate was after him. Ruroede’s moment of weakness--his moment of pique, when he swore he would not shoulder all this bitterness alone--had set her on his trail. A cable message to London, a wireless from the Admiralty, and then--this entry in the logbook of the _Bergensfjord_ for Monday, January 11, 1915: All male first and second class passengers were gathered in the first-class dining saloon and their nationality inquired into. About noon, the boarding officer of the Cruiser ---- (English) went back and reported to his ship. About 0:45 P. M. he came over with orders again to take off six German stowaways and two suspected passengers. These passengers were according to ship’s berth list as follows: 1. Rosato Sprio, Mexican, Destination Bergen, Cabin 71, second-class.... Rosato Sprio admitted after close examination to be H. A. Wedell. Claimed to be a citizen of the United States.... Dr. Rasmus Bjornstad claimed to be a Norwegian.... As both passengers apparently were travelling under false pretense, the Captain did not feel justified to protest against the detention of the two passengers. These were accordingly ... taken off and put on board the Auxiliary Cruiser ----. Unhappy Wedell! “The Cruiser ----” was a ship that never made port. Wedell’s high connections in the German Foreign Office could not save him from the activities of the high officials of the German Admiralty. A U-boat fired a torpedo into “the Cruiser ----” and sent her to the bottom with Rosato Sprio, _alias_ H. A. Wedell, aboard. Exeunt Wedell and Ruroede. Enter Werner Horn. CHAPTER II THE INSIDE STORY OF WERNER HORN AND THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE SHIP BOMBS The real mystery in the case of Werner Horn is this: Who was the man in Lower 3? (If he had only known----!) Because, except for this one missing fact, the story of Werner Horn is as clear as day. It is the story of a brave man, too honest to lie with a straight face, who was used by the villainous Von Bernstorff and Von Papen only after they had lied without a quiver, on at least three vital points, to him. He meant to fight the enemy of his country as a soldier fights, and they cynically sent him on an errand which they meant should be an errand of miscellaneous crime, including murder. He was to go to a felon’s death for this one of the many devilish plots they were concocting against American lives, while they lived in luxury in Washington and lied with smiling faces to the representatives of the people whose hospitality they were betraying. There have been few more despicably outrageous, more cold-blooded crimes than this--except that other one (also of their devising) in the ship bombs case; but that is another story, to be told later.