The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love
with a "penniless nobody," and announced that he would marry her against
all opposition. He determined to separate the lovers; to which end he
persuaded an influential friend in the Foreign Office to secure an
appointment for Guy in the Embassy at Madrid. He little knew that he
was sending his son into the centre of a hotbed of anarchism, that Guy's
footsteps were to be dogged by a vindictive and revengeful woman, that
his life was to hold many a thrilling moment and not a few narrow
escapes.
Mr Le Queux has written a thrilling story of anarchism and its deadly
secret plotting, a story through which there runs, nevertheless, a rich
vein of romance.