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At about this stage in affairs, when Nara-Nara does not know whom to
suspect, but still believes Northfield himself to be the traitor, the
latter falls madly in love with Kitty and declares it with true soldierlike frankness and dispatch. This makes her work all the harder and Kitty attempts to resign from the Service. Dr. Smith will not permit this,
however, and tells her that if she turns traitor now Miss Loring’s ’’ill
ness” 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 Northfield is in Nara-Nara' s office and standing near the microphone which permits him to hear all that is said in his own office. He learns to his horror 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 a blank sheet in an envelope to mail— if she is honest, or to give her confederates if she is the spy he now believes her to be. Nara-Nara follows her with it to Dr. Smith's house and watches from a balcony until he sees her deliver it. Thinking only of avenging his country's nonor, Nara-Nara springs, upon Dr. Smith as soon as Kitty has left him in search of Miss Loring.
From this point events move with a startling rapidity and the rest of the "secret game" is carried on in a whirl of events. First there is the death of Dr. Smith at Nara-Nara' s hands, then the meeting of Kitty and Nara-Nara on the stairs of the house. The Japanese still has the weapon in his hands with which he had killed the traitor, and is looking for Kitty, the girl who had duped 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 police or prove false to his high principles.
Northfield next enters and, not knowing that a letter from her brother in which he tells her to forget about this "righteous" war and to thank God she is not in Germany, has made Kitty turn with all her heart to the United States which have received her with open arms and which is after all her country, turns her over to the police who by this time have been sent for. The blank order saves Kitty, and the last we see of the two, they are saluting the flag which they see through a glass is being run up on the transports which are steaming out, of the harbor to safety.
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