- Young Jackie Kernwood, the daughter of the colonel commanding an army post, is bored with the routines of post life, and to break the monotony she organizes a girls' brigade, of which her father disapproves. When the colonel forces her to disband the group, she makes up her mind to run away and become a nurse in the Red Cross. Before she can do that, however, she stumbles across evidence of a spy ring headed by an officer on the post that is plotting to blow up a troop train--and it looks like the chief spy is her boyfriend, Lt. Adair.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Jackie Kerwood, daughter of Col. Kerwood Ingraham, wanted to be a boy. She thought if she was only a boy she could fight in the trenches or do some wonderful deed of valor that would make her name redound to glory. When the women of the army post urged her to be like the other girls and stay at home and knit, she replied that Joan D'Arc didn't knit, she got out in the open and fought. Jackie tried to organize a brigade of girls into "The Fighting Demons," but they didn't seem to care much for it. Neither did her father. Jackie decided to run away and be a Red Cross nurse. She rather hated to run away and leave Lieut. Adair, who had been calling regularly on her, but she felt that she must be of some service somewhere, and they did not seem to appreciate her at home. But just as she was leaving she saw something that made her decide to stay right at home and capture a spy. Only she had the spies mixed up and thought it was Lieut. Adair who was furnishing information to a regular nest of spies who were planning to blow up a train of troops. They wouldn't even pay much attention to Jackie's suspicion at her post. Her father told her he was getting tired of her wild dreams and pranks and that if she didn't stop them she was going to disrupt the discipline of the regiment. But Jackie was determined to nab a spy. So she watched around and trailed and kept track until she saw Lieut. Adair following Wilbur one night. Adair had his suspicions, too. He thought it might be safe to keep his eye open for Wilbur and consequences were that the spies grabbed Adair for watching Wilbur and threw him in the cellar of the conspirators' house. Jackie made tracks for her father, who believed her this time. There was a thrilling arrest of the spies, a smashing of the apparatus that was to electrically set off the fuse to blow up the train. Jackie and her lieutenant explained everything before the troops were called out to the front.
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