Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-09

enemy on the Russian FRONT. Japan. the
United States great ally, has guaranteed
safety to these transports and it is t'f
theshonor of his country that Nara-Nara
is put on the job.
IL has become known to the Secret
Service that there is a leak somewhere
in official circles and this leak has been
traced to the Office of one Major North
field, Y. S. Quartermaster of the Pacific
Coast. The American Secret Service E,s
declared Major Mortified to be above
suspicion. but nevertheless, Nara-Nara
resolves to watch him, and for this pCr-
pose hires Office next to his where he
sets himself up as Il Japanese Importer.
The truth of the matter is that Little
Kitty Little, stenographer in Nortu-
fields office is the real leak" through
which important" news is reaching the
enemy. She is a girl Of German paren
tage who has brother in the German
army. She is working under the direction
OF a so-called DR.. Smith (Schmidt in
Germany who, under the cloak of being
a physician, sees his agents as patients.
It is DR.. Smith who has procured the
position for Kitty in Northtields Office,
Ifor ne pretends to be a great friend of
the Majors. He it is also who invites
Kitty and Miss Loring. Northfields 0ri-
vate secretary. TO a little dinner, during
the course Of which he so drugs Miss
Loring's coffee that she loses conscious
ness and is taken with sort Of amncsia.
hltty is promoted to Miss Loring oosi-
ton where she has access to ali the i'm
portant documents.
At about this stage in affairs. when
Nara-Nara does not know whom to sus-
pect, but still believes Mortified himself
to be the traitor the latter falls madly
in love with Kitty and declares it with
true solder-like frankness and dispatch.
This makes her work all the harder md
Kitty attempts to resign from the
Service Dr. Smith will not permit thts.
however, and tells her that if she turns
traitor now Miss Loring's illness" will
end disastrously. DR.. Smith obtains the
date of the next transport order by
threatening the life of Miss Loring.
This he telephones to Kitty when It
happens that Mortified is in Nara-Naras
office and standing near the microphono
which permits him to hear all that is saiA
in his own office. He learns to his hor-
ror that Kitty, the girl he loves. is a spy,
albeit a reluctant and broken hearted
one.
Therefore. when the transport order
does come through. he gives Kitty n
blank sheet in an envelope TO mail-if she
is honest, or to give her confederates IL
she is the spy he now believes her to he.
Nara Nara follows her with it to Dr.
Smiths house and watches from a pal
cony until he sees her deliver it, Think.
ing only of avenging his countrys honor.
Nara-Nara springs upon DR.. Smith as
soon as Kitty has left him in search of
Miss Loring
Firm this point events move with a
startling rapdity and the rest of the
SECRET game is carried on in a Wh;ri
g. events. First there is the death of
Or. Smith at Nara Nara's hands, then
the stairs of the house The Japanese
still has the weapon in his hands with
which he had Killed the traitor, ana is
looking for Kitty, the girl who had duoed
him. Meeting her. he reAlizes his great
affection for her in spite of everything.
but sacrifices himself for her. committing
suicide rather than betray her to the pc
lice or prove false TO his high principles
Northfiel'l next enters and, not knowing
that letter from her brother in which
he tells her to forget about this right
eous' war and TO thank God she is not in
Germany has made Kitty turn with all
her heart 10 the United States which
have received her with open arms ana
which is after all her country. turns her
over 70 the police Who by this time have
been sent for. The blank order saves
Kitty. and the last we see of the two,