The Detective and the Girl (1913)
John Bousall. a United States Secret Service operative, is stationed in a great Dutch diamond port, chiefly to keep track of purchases made by persons bound for the United States. A band of New York smugglers has been working through this port very skillfully and very successfully, and they are the first object of his solicitude. Bousall learns that an Americanized Italian, Alberti, who poses as a count, has recently made large purchases and contemplates sailing on the S.S. Vollendam. At a prior time, young Bousall happens to be presented to Alice Gordon, a wealthy young American, who is touring with her father and brother through Holland. When he learns that the "Count" is about to sail, he takes passage on the same steamer, and a cablegram summons Miss Gordon's father, her brother and herself to come immediately to New York, so that they happen to be fellow passengers at the last moment. Jans, a waiter in the hotel, in reality a famous crook, has discovered Alberti, a guest at his house, concealing diamonds in a corset, which he puts around his body, and secures passage on the Vollendam, with a view, incidentally, to taking the diamonds, and, if necessity dictates, the Italian's life. Owing to the rush for accommodations, Ben Gordon is placed in Alberti's cabin. Things soon begin to happen. One morning Ben Gordon wakes up to find that Alberti, who occupied the berth below him, has been murdered, and he is immediately taken in charge as a suspect on the testimony of the cabin steward, so the captain orders him in irons. Prior to this, Ben has observed his sister talking with Bousall, and with the impetuosity of youth, and without stopping to inquire into their previous acquaintance, orders him away. Ben's arrest causes his sister and father the keenest anguish, and Bousall, forgetting the indignity put upon himself, generously determines to help them. The captain of the ship is about to send a wireless, informing New York of the murder's approach and asking as to his disposition, when father Gordon importunes him not to make known the name of his son, who has been arrested merely on circumstantial evidence, as the blow would kill his mother, now seriously ill in New York. The captain blusters; he will not be bullied on his own ship, when Bousall quietly draws him aside, shows him the badge of the Secret Service, and takes possession of the wireless office himself. In the interim he has discovered the disguise of Jans and has fairly well satisfied himself that he is the real murderer. The consequence is that when the steamer arrives, Jans, who is trying to make a getaway, is arrested; the diamonds are discovered on his person. Ben Gordon is released; the smugglers are brought to justice, and Bousall wins a sentimental reward that is to him finer by far than diamonds.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| E.A. Martin | Director |
| Lanier Bartlett | Writer |
| William Nicholas Selig | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Henry A. Livingston | |
| Barney Furey | |
| Adele Lane | |
| William Ryno |
