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A woman spy in the employ of a foreign government is ordered to get the plans of a fortification from a young lieutenant, and is threatened with death if she is not successful. She goes to ... See full summary
A woman spy in the employ of a foreign government is ordered to get the plans of a fortification from a young lieutenant, and is threatened with death if she is not successful. She goes to the embassy ball and sees there her victim, the lieutenant who is intoxicated and lying across the table. She succeeds in getting the plans from his pocket and goes away. Arriving home she realizes by a movement of the curtain that the man who controls her life waits for the papers in the next room. As she starts to take them to him a letter falls to the floor from the envelope containing the plans. It is a letter from the lieutenant's mother expressing faith in his execution of his duty to his country, and she realizes what this will mean to the mother. She finally decides that she would rather have the son meet disgrace than herself meet death. In a reverie she has a vision of her own life starting when as a young girl she left home. The vision of her own mother causes her to decide to return the ...

A print of this film survives in the Library of Congress.

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    • Author: Tejora
    This film does not tell a powerful story, but it is remarkable from the fact that but one person appears. It is really a film monologue. Louise Vale is the woman in the case. The situations pique the interest because of a certain enigmatic character which makes the observer wonder what is coming next. M.B. Havey wrote the scenario. - The Moving Picture World, January 10, 1914
  • Cast overview:
    Louise Vale Louise Vale - Leonie - the Spy
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