The Special Agent (1910)
Reports are received by the chief of the mounted police that an illicit still is being operated in the mountains of Kentucky, and at once they get busy to bring about the arrest of the moonshiners. A special agent, a young officer, is appointed to visit the district and, if possible, bring about the detection and arrest of the culprits. Disguising himself as a lumberman, the young officer starts in quest of his prey. He travels over a wild stretch of wood until he comes to the edge of the mountain. Hiding his portable telephone instrument at the foot of the telegraph pole, he plunges up the side of the mountain and into the forest until he reaches a cabin, where he finds a party of mountaineers. The cabin is owned by a rough and desperate man, whose daughter acts as housekeeper. She is a pretty girl and subjected to the ill temper of her father and the attentions of an objectionable lover. The special agent is asked to partake of their evening meal, and while the girl is pouring coffee, the top of the coffee pot falls on the floor. The young agent politely picks it up and replaces it. The young girl is pleased and notices that his manners are not those of the wood chopper, and the young officer has not failed to notice that the girl is very pretty and deserves a better and nobler place in society. The distasteful suitor of the girl proposes to her and she ignores him. He is enraged. She flies from him. Her pursues her and is about to strike her when the agent comes upon them and fells the villain to the ground. The girl is so gratefully embarrassed she cannot speak and hastens away in bashful confusion. The special agent, being convinced that he has discovered the guilty people, goes at once to the telegraph line, secures his instruments, climbs the pole and telephones to police headquarters, and the officers, upon receipt of the message, mount their horses and ride at high speed for the scene of action. None too soon, however, for the special agent, on his return to the cabin, has been accused by the girl's lover of being an officer, and he is bound hand and foot, to be shot. The posse of police burst in and rescue him from death. The young agent starts away with the rest of the officers, but quickly returns to declare his love for the young girl and receive her answer, which is given in a fond embrace and sealed with a kiss. This is not the end. We must follow them from the bleak and desolate mountain haunts as they start out together into a bright and happy future of wedded bliss.
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