GERMAN ATROCITIES

By William Le Queux

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Preface			5
What the Kaiser Said			8
Foreword			9
Author's Note			10
Introduction			11
Chapter	I.	Article XXIII. of The Hague Convention	19
"	II.	My Interview with Belgian Ministers of State	21
"	III.	The British Press Bureau Statement	26
"	IV.	Second Report of the Belgian Committee of Inquiry	34
"	V.	Can these Things be True?	44
"	VI.	Wanton Brutality	47
"	VII.	300 Men Shot in Cold Blood	52
"	VIII.	The Inferno at Visé	54
"	IX.	The Maiden Tribute	58
"	X.	Atrocities Round Liége	66
"	XI.	The Crime of Louvain	73
"	XII.	French Protest to the Powers	91
"	XIII.	The Desecration of Churches	101
"	XIV.	Treatment of English Travellers	105
"	XV.	What Our Soldiers Say	109
"	XVI.	The Antwerp Outrage	117
"	XVII.	"The Hussar-like Stroke"	124
The Day			127

CHAP.		PAGE

I	In which Job Seal Borrows a Fusee	7

II	What We Saw and What We Heard	16

III	The Mysterious Man	24

IV	In Which I Examine the Parchments	32

V	With a Story to Tell	39

VI	An Expert Opinion	46

VII	What was Written in the Vellum Book	56

VIII	The Seven Dead Men	65

IX	One Point is Made Clear	71

X	The Guardian of the Secret	79

XI	Forestalled	88

XII	Job Seal Makes a Proposal	96

XIII	A Call, and its Consequence	105

XIV	Requires Explanation	114

XV	Reveals Something of Importance	122

XVI	Mrs. Grahamâ?Ts Visitor	132

XVII	The Seller of the Secret	139

XVIII	The Silent Manâ?Ts Warning	147

XIX	The Lady from Bayswater	154

XX	Philip Reilly Tells a Strange Story	161

XXI	We Make a Discovery in the Manor House	171

XXII	Black Bennett	180

XXIII	Job Seal Relates His Adventures	188

XXIV	The Mystery of Margaret Knutton	195

XXV	Reveals the Death-Trap	204

XXVI	In which Ben Knutton Grows Confidential	211

XXVII	Dorothy Drummond Prefers Secrecy	220

XXVIII	We Receive Midnight Visitors	228

XXIX	Dorothy Makes a Confession	237

XXX	The Silent Manâ?Ts Story	245

XXXI	The House at Kilburn	253

XXXII	What We Discovered at the Record Office	261

XXXIII	We Decipher the Parchment	270

XXXIV	Our Search at Tickencote and its Results	278

XXXV	The Spy, and What He Told Us	286

XXXVI	â?oNine Points of the Lawâ?	295

XXXVII	Contains the Conclusion	299