Twelve years later, Orlando created a private spy ring of servants employed by the world's most powerful dignitaries and recruited his own servants, Shola and Polly. The main goal of the network is to protect Great Britain and the British Empire from the coming Great War. Conrad wants to enlist in the army, but Orlando forbids him from joining the British army and convinces Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of War, not to allow this[3][4][6][5].

On Kitchener's orders, Conrad and Orlando travel with