Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-17
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER l-Georgy Wagstaff.
daughter of Sir George, of the British
admiralty, hints at liaison between
her governess, Ethel Willoughby, and
Henry Streetman, Ethel denies it.
CHAPTER lI.-iienry Streetman
calls on Ethel and while waiting for
her talks to Brewster, Sir Georges
butler, who is German spy, about his
failure to get at admiralty papers in
Sir Georges possession He phones to
Germ IN secret service headquarters.
CHAPTER IlI-When Ethel appears
he tries to force her TO get from Sir
George knowledge of the sailing or
ders of the British fleet. Though she
believes him French instead of a
German spy, she refuses until he
threatens her. She begs him to an
nounce their secret marriage, as
Georky is suspicious, but he puts her
off.
CHAPTERlV-At tea Georgy and
=. her lover Guy Falconer. tease Sir
George, and Strcetman makes an awk.
ward attempt to talk politics.
CHAPTER V.-Charlie Brown, news
paper man of New York entertains
the tea rarity with his views on the
threatened war in Europe
CHATTER Vl-Guy Fa' oae: de
ClareS that if war comes he will 20 t.
Cuba His mother and Sir George re
prove him. Charlie says Guy is spool
lng,
CHAPTER VIT--Capt. Larry Red.
mond of the Irish Guards, calls on
Ethel The two had been undeclared
lovers and now he asks her to marry
him. She still loves him, but tells
him she is married
CHAPTER VIlI-Ethel finds that
Larry knows Streetman as German
spy, and that Strcetman had a wife
in Berlin when he married her The
others come in and to them comes
Sir George with the new. that Ger,
many has declared war on Russia.
CHAPTER lX.-Guy wants to 80
at once with Larry to 1list. After
the Others 90 Ethel wins Larrys con.
sent to have her assist him in the Sc.
cret service work he is doing for
England,
CHAPTER X Streetman again
calls on Ethel She gets from him an
admission tina, he Is a German spy,
gives him false information about the
British fleet and wins his consent to
her cooperation with him in his work
She tells Larry 70 this and agrees 90
meet him in Brussels.
CHAPTER Kiln the Lion d Or
Inn at Courvoia!er, Belgium, Larry and
o French spy arrange fOc secret tel
ephOne In the inn to forward inf0r
nation about the German advance
Christophe. the landlord tells his
daughter Jeanne that there will be nc
German invasion O, Belgium
CHHAPTER XiI.--Charle Brown
hunting for a war, arrives at the Lion
d Or and meets Ethel there.
CHAPTER XlII-Ethel is told she
Is to operate the secret phone. A mol
Of refugees flee past the inn before the
oncoming German host. The German
advance guard arrives.
CHAPTER XlV--Maior Won Brenie
takes possession of Christophe's son
and other property. Ethel, question
cd, shows German secret service Gre
dentials.
CHAPTER XV--Charle Brown is
about to be shot as an English spy
when the major, Columbia graduate
saves him.
CHAPTER XVI-Charle promptly
Interviews the major for his paper
Streetman appears and Charlie is or.
dered back to Brussels.
CHAPTER XVlI.--The secret tele
phone Is d slcovered and though Chris.
top1e had known nothing of It he IS
shot s a spy by Streetman's order
The telephone is left intact as trap
CHAPTER Xv1IT.--Ethel tries to
use the secret phone. Is caught, and
Is bout to be executed as a spy when
Larry. posing as Lieutenant Kard, res.
cues her.