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Nat Boyd, a telegraph operator, deeply morns the death of his father, recently shot in the Civil War. He makes application for a position in the U.S. Secret Service and is accepted. He remembers a college chum, John Stilton, who is now a ...See moreNat Boyd, a telegraph operator, deeply morns the death of his father, recently shot in the Civil War. He makes application for a position in the U.S. Secret Service and is accepted. He remembers a college chum, John Stilton, who is now a captain in the Confederate army, and whose father is a retired colonel. He manages to secure an invitation to visit the Stiltons, claiming that his health is affected by the northern climate, and he goes to work as a spy. General Lee makes his headquarters at the Stilton home, and Nat taps the telegraph wires, but is unable to discover the secret code until one day General Lee, suspicious of a click in the wires, has the code changed and it is blown out of the window. Nat copies it before the telegraph operator misses it and looks for it. Nat has feigned such ill health that the Stiltons invite his mother down to nurse him. She is a handsome woman and Col. Stilton falls in love with her and proposes marriage. She has become fond of the Colonel and accepts him, and she tries to dissuade her son from the contemptible work he is doing. John Stilton discovers the duplicity of his friend, and does not wish to expose him, as it would ruin his father's life and of Mrs. Stilton, for whom he has a deep affection, so he arranges false messages, which Nat intercepts and sends to the enemy. Mrs. Stilton learns of this and commands him to stop John Stilton, who has started for the front, threatening to expose her son if he does not comply, Nat goes after John, and is stopped by Southern sentries. In attempting to gallop past them he is mortally wounded. A terrible battle takes place, the Union army acting on the false information and being badly defeated. John Stilton conceals the actions of Nat, and tells his father that Nat died carrying false messages for John to the enemy. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less