Germans are Natural Spies—The Principles of Frederick the Great—_Matinées du Roi de Prusse_—Royal Views on War, Religion, Policy, Justice—Essential Militarism of Social Germany—Price Collier's Opinion—Stieber the Organiser of German Espionage—His Origin, Character, Unscrupulousness—Employed by his Sovereign—His Importance in Official Circles—His Activity in all Classes of Society—His Decorations of Honour—Bismarck meets a Kindred Soul—Stieber "fixes" Bohemia—Downfall of Austria at Sadowa—Stieber promoted CHAPTER XI GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—_continued_ 179 Bismarck's Faith in Stieber—Red Eagle for the Sleuth—Stieber's Preparation to _invade_ France—His Requisitions of Female Agents—An Attempted Assassination—Bismarck's Far-sightedness—Stieber precedes the Army of 1870—His Duties in the Field—A Pen Picture of De Gallifet—Stieber's Ferocity and Boastfulness—The Reptile Press—Bismarck and the Sleuth—Shooting a Bridegroom—German Gold wins Friends—Importance of Stieber in Berlin—His Wealth and Social Pretensions—Fears the Theatre and Literature—Meeting with Mommsen—Berlin a new _Urbs Sacra_ CHAPTER XII GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—_continued_ 195 German Strategic Railways—Their Military _Personnel_ and Character—Stieber's Railway Spies in France—His Foreign Agents of Domestic Unrest—England also "covered"—Stieberism and the Dreyfus Case—Economic Unrest and Berlin Gold—An Appeal to Irishmen—The Mesnard Pamphlet—Who financed the Suffragettes? (_Note_)—Death of Stieber—His Decorations of _Honour_—German Lecturers and Teutonic Ambitions—Jewish Eugenics copied—Prussia's National Missionaries—Creation of "Sympathetic" Areas—Stieberism a Sink of Immorality—"All is Justifiable"—How France was overrun—German Sleuths at Work—The Residential Spy CHAPTER XIII GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—_continued_ 214 Berlin and Polyænus—What the Spy has to find out—Lanoir's Tales in Point—Buying a Subaltern—£8000 to a Lieutenant—Berlin pays £10,000 for False Information—A Pole _does_ the Bureau for £4000—German Spies in 1914—The War Lord's _Un_acted Drama—Germanising Influences in Belgium—Rhodes Scholarships objected to—Ex-Priests in German Army—Cipher and Red Man's Signals CHAPTER XIV GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—_continued_ 229 Steinhauer in Stieber's Chair—His Work at Headquarters—Scare Policies—Elme Caro quoted—The Zeppelin Programme—Hermann Turr's Revelations—Windell the "valet"—"Number Seventy, Berlin"—The Personal Qualifications of German Agents—No Pretenders need apply—Salaries of Secret Agents—A Hard Curriculum—Berlin's Tireless Quest of Intelligence—Mr Graves and his Experience—Generous Pay for Good Work—Game not worth the Candle CHAPTER XV GERMAN SECRET SERVICE—_concluded_ 242