It was on February 2nd that I turned in my confession and swore to the truth of it. Affairs went better with me after that. I was sent to Lewes Prison, and there I was content for the remainder of my stay in England. And although I was still a prisoner I felt more free than I had felt in many years. I was out of it all—free of the necessity to be always watchful, always secret. And above all, I had cut myself loose from the intriguing that I had once enjoyed, but which in the last two years I had grown to hate more than I hated anything else on earth. [Illustration: In the safe-deposit vault, the receipt for which is reproduced herewith, Capt. von der Goltz deposited his Mexican Commission and other papers which would prove his connection with the Mexican Constitutionalist army. It will be noted that the receipt bears von der Goltz’s signature as “B. H. Taylor,” the name under which he returned to Europe.] And there my own adventures end—so far as this book is concerned. I shall not do more than touch upon my return to the United States on so far different an errand than I had once planned. My testimony in the Grand Jury proceedings against Captain Tauscher, von Igel and other of my onetime fellow conspirators, is a matter of too recent record to deserve more than passing mention. Tauscher, you will remember, was acquitted because it was impossible to prove that he was aware of the objects for which he had supplied explosives. Von Igel, Captain von Papen’s secretary, was protected by diplomatic immunity. And Fritzen and Covani, my former lieutenants, had not yet been captured.[4] But though my intriguing was ended, Germany’s was not. It may be interesting to consider these intrigues, in the light of what I had learned during those two years—and what I have discovered since. CHAPTER X. _The German intrigue against the United States. Von Papen, Boy-Ed and von Rintelen, and the work they did. How the German-Americans were used and how they were betrayed._ In the long record of German intrigue in the United States one fact stands out predominantly. If you consider the tremendous ramifications of the system that Germany has built, the extent of its organization and the efficiency with which so gigantic a secret work was carried on, you will realize that this system was not the work of a short period but of many years. As a matter of fact, Germany had laid the foundation of that structure of espionage and conspiracy many years before—even before the time when the United States first became a Colonial Power and thus involved herself in the tangle of world politics.