he side of the injured
officer's cot. She felt his pulse, took his temperature and administered
some medicine. Then the injured man, who was Mr. DeVere himself, sank
back on his pillows. His hand went under the mass of feathers and
brought out a packet of papers. At this point a close-up view was taken,
showing on the screen the papers in magnified shape, so that the
audience could note that they were Civil War documents. It was these
that the officer was afraid would fall into the hands of the
Confederates, so he kept them ever near him.

Ruth made as if to remove them when he had placed them under the pillow
again, but he awoke with a start and prevented her. This was to show
that it was necessary for some one to take them while the operation was
being performed.

Then the scene changed to show Alice preparing for her work as a spy.
The camera was taken to another part of the hospital, Ruth and her
father having a respite, though they maintained their positions.

"Did I do all right, Daddy?" asked Ruth.

"Very well, indeed. You are getting to be a good actress. I wish you
were on the speaking stage."

"I like this ever so much better. I never could speak before a whole
crowd."

Alice was shown making her way into the hospital, a previous scene
having depicted her as promising the Confederate officer in whose employ
as a spy she was, that she would get the papers. She entered the
hospital, pretending to be in search of a missing relative. Then,
watching her chance, she prepared a sleeping powder for a tired and
half-sleeping nurse off duty and prepared to take her uniform.

Alice played her part well. The sleeping nurse aroused, took the drugged
drink, and went more soundly to sleep than ever. Then Alice was shown in
the act of taking off the uniform. Another scene showed her walking
boldly into the ward room to relieve Ruth.

There was a little scene between the two sisters, and Ruth registered
that Alice must be very careful not to alarm or shock the wounded man
who was soon to undergo the operation.

Alice acquiesced, and then sat down beside the cot. Slowly and
carefully, like some pickpocket, she inserted her fingers under the
pillow. Amid a tenseness that affected even the actors working with her,
Alice took out the papers, inch by inch, and began to move away with
them.

It was at this point that she was to be discovered by Paul, in the next
bed. He had, in a previous scene, supposed to have taken p