The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
JAPANESE SECRET SERVICE.
Story OF Q Lieutenant Who. Became Dissi.
pated to Fulfl . Mission.

Il require OF you" said the Chief Of the
STAT, in polished Japanese. shat you,
should leave our present mode Of living.
and, become, on the contrary. dissipated.
You must leave your studies and your books,
and instead have for your haunts tea houses
and your companions geishs.', +, 80.
I. The young Lieutenant was sad, for he was
healthy minded and detested dissipation;
but being a Japanese devoted to his country.
he set his teeth and obeysd orders. He was
to become dissipated in order to prosecute
some secret service mission, the nature and
object Of which be could not surmise.
At first he found that Il il not 90 easy for
the good to fall. He neither liked the gay
costumsd girls nor the warm sake they
naively served to the accompaniment Of.
many sweet smiles.
At last the day Of evil came; the Lieutenant,
after all, was human, not Of adamant. He
actually fell head over heels in love with a
geisha, says the Toxic correspondent OF the
London Telegraph in writing OF the Japanese
secret service.
From that day he ceased to be sombre and
silent, and o boisterously to the devil.
His superiors at headquarters dismissed
him from the service, INT with ignominy
His father forbade him the house, his rela-
tives politely declined to see him, and his
acquaintance, many of them themselves
military men, knew him not He was an
outoast.
Now said the Chief Of the STAFF. you
have reached the condition that l earnestly
desired, and you viii receive your reward. l
am about to send you on q mission Of high
impor tanoe to the State. Tonight, telling
nobody-not even your father-you will
proceed to Nagasaki. There you will open
the box which l will give you. 1t is OF
lacquer, and inside are complete instructions
as to your future"
Those instructions were that he was to
go 10 a certain country where a first class
Power was at war with the natives. Here
he Joined the staff Of the native chief, and
| his bravery. no less than his military genius,
soon acquired for him a fame not altogether
unmingled with notoriety. As a matter
Of fact, his presence counted 80 much IN
the campaign that the first class Power
| opened diplomatic negotiations with Japan,
oontending~ seriously that a military officer
was serving in a high position on the reheI
chiefs staff. OF course. the japanese
Government knew nothing about the mat
ter, nor was it likely to, seeing that no mill,
tary officer had been officially despatched
on such a curious mission. He was NOM
inally a rebel under the rebels banner.
/ nthis way he secured the needed and valu-
able information about the topography
Of the country, the enemy g plan and scheme
Of operations, his tactics and his strategy,
his Notifications and his defence works.
all Of which were Of the utmost value to
Japan.
Then the young officer, after many ad-
ventures, made his way back to Japan. only
to find that the Chief OF the STAFF was dead
and another occupied his place. o.,
He was disc wned by the army, but told
privately that work like that he had Just
accomplished would be found for him in
Manohuria. Possibly he thought he had
dens enough for his country, however,
He has disappeared, and, strangely, enough,
the geisha with whom he fell in love has
disappeared also. Together, far from the
madding crowd, the young lieuteIant and
the beauty Of the tea shop are living happy
ever after.