The Long Arm of the Secret Service (1915)

Kathryn Adams

Wayne Arey

Morgan Jones

After three years spent in New York the girl returns to the little village where she was born. She meets her sweetheart. After relating her experiences in the city they talk about their school days and recall the time when the swe...

The Long Arm of the Secret Service

After three years spent in New York the girl returns to the little village where she was born. She meets her sweetheart. After relating her experiences in the city they talk about their school days and recall the time when the sweetheart whipped another schoolboy who is now village judge and the richest man in the community. The judge later sees the girl, and is attracted by her beauty, but she refuses to have anything to do with him. Her actions arouse the jealousy of the judge. One day two strangers come into the village, one, unassuming, goes to the aunt of the girl to board. The other, flashy and fresh, insults the girl, and her sweetheart again defends her. The flashily dressed man visits the office of the judge. He has an envelope that contains the reason for the judge's wealth. The smuggling of opium is his real source of income, and the message that the flashy person brings tells of the coming of a shipment of the drug. It also enclosed a warning and a photograph of a new secret service agent who has been put on the case. And the photograph is of the man boarding at the home of the girl's aunt. The judge has a circular sent out by the Secret Service Bureau offering $5,000 reward for the capture of the smugglers. He takes the picture and the circular to his rival. The photograph, he lies, is that of the smuggler suspect. The circular offers enough money for the youth to marry the girl if he will aid in the capture. The lover agrees. That night the judge tells the lover he has heard that a shipment of opium will be left tied to the buoy at Saw-Tooth Reef. An hour before dawn they start in the judge's big boat. But when near the buoy the judge claims that, owing to the submerged rocks, he cannot get his big boat close enough to the buoy to get the cans of opium they see tied to it and which they wish to secure as evidence. The rival offers to swim, just as the judge knew he would. The judge offers him the use of the small, covered life-boat that is lashed to the cabin, but the younger man claims it isn't necessary. When he reaches the buoy and gets the opium he observes his traitor friend speeding fast away. The judge gets the real shipment of opium and hides it in his office. The judge then goes to the secret service agent and tells him that he has located the smugglers. One of them, he says, is clinging to the Saw-Tooth Reef, helpless. As they start out to the buoy, another boat piloted by a figure in oilskins shoots toward it. They see the man on the buoy rescued. They chase the rescuing boat, but it escapes. Enraged and thwarted the judge and the secret service man return to the shore. They go to the judge's office, where calmly smoking in a chair at the judge's desk, is the man he left on the buoy and seated by the secret panel that hides the opium is the figure in oilskins. But the judge thinks only that the plan which went wrong has now righted. He runs to his rival and declares him under arrest. Willingly he lends the secret service man the handcuffs to snap onto the wrists of his enemy. With a lightning-like movement the secret agent snaps the cuffs on the judge's wrist as the figure in oilskins presses the secret spring that reveals the hidden store of the smuggled drug. Then that figure throws aside the disguise and stands revealed as the girl who tells the judge that she was hidden in the small boat that was lashed to the top of the motorboat cabin throughout its trip, and that she observed all. It was she who rescued the champion of her childhood days and she, too, gave the information that snapped the handcuffs on the wrists of the guilty man, for it was not a mere visit that she paid to her old home. She had been sent there by the same man who sent the quiet stranger. She also is one of the sinews in the long arm of the secret service. For a minute there comes a cloud over the joyous happiness of the man who loves her. She has gained success as a secret service agent. He is poor. But love is greater than all other things to the girl. She tells him that the $5,000 reward is for them both. It means a little home and happiness.

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