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The Project Gutenberg EBook of L. P. M., by J. Stewart BarneyCopyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check thecopyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributingthis or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this ProjectGutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit theheader without written permission.Please read the "legal small print," and other information about theeBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included isimportant information about your specific rights and restrictions inhow the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make adonation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts****eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971*******These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****Title: L. P. M.The End of the Great WarAuthor: J. Stewart BarneyRelease Date: April, 2005 [EBook #7826][Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule][This file was first posted on May 20, 2003]Edition: 10Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-Latin-1*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK L. P. M. ***Produced by Eric Casteleijn, Cam Venezuela, Charles M. Bidwell,Thomas Hutchinson, Suzanne L. Shell, Charles Franksand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team[Illustration: "COUNT VON HEMELSTEIN," THE AMERICAN SAID LAZILY,"I WAS JUST THINKING WHAT A STUNNING BOOK-COVER YOU WOULDMAKE FOR A CHEAP NOVEL." Drawn by Clarence F. Underwood.]
 
L. P. M.The End of the Great WarByJ. Stewart Barney1915With a Frontispiece byClarence F. Underwood_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.CONTENTSCHAPTERI.--THE MAN AND THE HOURII.--THE ONE-MAN SECRETIII.--CROSSING WITH ROYALTYIV.--THE FIRST REBUFFV.--ECHOES FROM THE WILHELMSTRASSEVI.--A RUSTY OLD CANNON-BALLVII.--DIPLOMACY WINSVIII.--THE SPY-DRIVEN TAXIIX.--BUCKINGHAM PALACEX.--HE MEETS THE KINGXI.--THE DEIONIZERXII.--FIRST SHOW OF FORCEXIII.--"THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING!"XIV.--THE ROYAL TEA-TABLEXV.--SURROUNDED BY SOLDIERSXVI.--A DINNER AT THE BRITZXVII.--THE VOICE IN THE TELEPHONEXVIII.--IN THE HANDS OF THE GERMANSXIX.--THE GERMAN POINT OF VIEWXX.--GENERAL VON LICHTENSTEINXXI.--HE INSTALLS HIS WIRELESSXXII.--KAFFEE KLATSCH
 
XXIII.--THE TWO-WHEELED MYSTERYXXIV.--DER KAISERXXV.--THE MASQUERADERXXVI.--TWO REMARKABLE MENXXVII.--ALL CARDS ON THE TABLEXXVIII.--WHERE IS IT?XXIX.--THE DIFFERENCE OF THEIR STATIONSXXX.--THEY CALL FOR ASSISTANCEXXXI.--"SIT DOWN, YOU DOG!"XXXII.--L. P. M.XXXIII.--YACHTING IN THE AIRXXXIV.--THE ULTIMATUMXXXV.--A LYING KING MAKES A NATION OF LIARSXXXVI.--THINK OF IT! WHY NOT?L. P. M.CHAPTER ITHE MAN AND THE HOURThe Secretary of State, although he sought to maintain an air ofofficial reserve, showed that he was deeply impressed by what he hadjust heard."Well, young man, you are certainly offering to undertake a prettylarge contract."He smiled, and continued in a slightly rhetorical vein--the Secretarywas above all things first, last, and always an orator."In my many years of public life," he said, "I have often had occasionto admire the dauntless spirit of our young men. But you have forcedme to the conclusion that even I, with all my confidence in theirpower, have failed to realize how inevitably American initiative andindependence will demand recognition. It is a quality which our formof government seems especially to foster and develop, and I gloryin it as perhaps the chief factor in our national greatness andpre-eminence."In what other country, I ask you," he flung out an arm across thegreat, flat-topped desk of state, "would a mere boy like yourself everconceive such a scheme, or have the incentive or opportunity to bringit to perfection? And, having conceived and perfected it, in whatother country would he find the very heads of his Government soaccessible and ready to help him?"The young man leaned forward. "Then am I to understand, Mr. Secretary,that you are ready to help me?""Yes." He faced about and looked at his visitor in a glow of
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