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- Before his marriage, Lieutenant Harris had been known as a somewhat wild young man. He feels sure that his wife knows nothing of his escapades, but in reality she knows all about them. It is announced in the papers that Miss Katharine Nielson, a former sweetheart of the lieutenant, is to play in the city where his post is located. Some of his brother officers, hearing of this, concoct a plan to have fun at his expense. They beguile Mrs. Harris into the plot. She writes a letter, in disguised hand, and sends it to her sister, in Kansas City, so that she may mail it to Harris, a time to have it delivered on the first of April. This letter is supposed to come from Katharine Nielson. The lieutenant receives it and becomes very much excited. He informs his wife that he must be absent from the post for a few days, and that she must go to her sister in Kansas City. He helps her pack and rushes her to the depot. She gives him a note before she gets on the train. As the train pulls out he reads the note, which says: "I wrote the letter myself, April Fool!" He looks up to see his wife standing opposite him where she alighted from the other side of the train. His brother officers appear from their hiding place in the depot and the joke is enjoyed by all but the unhappy victim.
- Col. Darrell, commander of an army post, lives there with his wife and son, Clyde. The son is a West Point graduate, and lieutenant at the post. He is engaged to Grace Baily, the daughter of Major Baily also of the post. Van Vorst, a spy, is sent by the head of a secret service bureau maintained by a foreign government in a large American city to get the plans of the army post. He meets Mrs. Darrell. And by means of some secret hold upon her induces her to introduce him to her husband and son as a great friend of a relative from the west. The plans of the fort are stolen and cannot be located, but later in an attempt to secure more data the culprit is captured and turns out to be Van Vorst. He is about to be taken away by the guards, when he demands a hearing before the Colonel and his son. When it is granted Van Vorst declares that Clyde is his son. He is disbelieved and tells them to summon Mrs. Darrell. She confirms his story and it develops that Mrs. Darrell, knowing the Colonel's desire for a son, adopted the baby of Van Vorst when the latter's wife died. Van Vorst is taken away, but the Colonel, Clyde's sweetheart and the officers stand by Clyde. The latter, however, thinks of a plan to outwit Van Vorst and secure possession of the stolen plans. In the spy's presence the officers repudiate Clyde, to the spy's great satisfaction, and when they are purposely left alone, Van Vorst gives Clyde the address of the secret bureau, where Clyde, posing as a man embittered against his country, obtains employment. Later, Van Vorst escapes from prison, and chances to overhear the Colonel and his officers toast Clyde for his bravery, and realizes that the young man whom they honor is his own son. He arrives at the secret rendezvous just as Clyde, having secured the papers, throws off the mask and they know him for what he is. He is hemmed in by his enemies. Van Vorst has a vision of the scene at the fort, and resolves to save him. In the fight Van Vorst is badly wounded, but help arrives in time to save Clyde, who delivers the plans to the Colonel. The spy dies, after saving his son, and having won his respect.