Secret Service

Question 1

Secret Service Acts I and II Summary

Answer 1

• Mrs. Varney tells Wilfred that she will ask his father about his joining the military
• Wilfred wants to join the military for Caroline
• Edith enters and announces the news about her letter from the president excusing Capt. Thorne from his duty (placing him in charge of the telegraph service)
• Capt. Thorne enters to say goodbye to Edith
• Edith beats around the bush & exits to get letter
• Capt. Thorne waits –> Caroline enters and convinces Thorne to stay for the party to escort Edith
• Wilfred enters with military clothes under his coat
• Wilfred & Caroline –> ex-fiances –> Caroline wants a military man to take care of
• Caroline takes clothes to fix for Wilfred
• Wilfred goes to write letter to his dad (General Varney)
• Arrelsford enters looking for Jonas, suspecting that Jonas has had contact with a spy from the Union Army
• Arrelsford confronts Jonas and has him beaten
• Arrelsford tells Mrs. Varney of his suspicions about Louis Dumont (Capt. Thorne)
• Edith refuses to believe that Thorne is a traitor/spy
• Edith suggests that Arrelsford consults Thorne’s brother (who is in prison)
• Arrelsford tells Edith to keep Thorne in the house
• Mrs. Varney tells Wilfred that he can join the military
• Arrelsford and Mrs. Varney hide before Henry Dumont enters to see Thorne and Edith
• Edith refuses to follow the plan
• Arrelsford shows her the letter as evidence to prove his betrayal
• Edith shows letter to Thorne –> Thorne tells Edith that he must find who wrote the letter
• Henry Dumont breaks loose and busts through the window –> (part of the plan)
• Thorne (Lewis Dumont) fights his brother but then stops and Henry recites the letter
• Henry tells Thorne (Lewis) to shoot him in the leg –> so that they don’t think Thorne is a spy
• Thorne refuses –> Henry shoots himself in leg
• Everyone rushes in –> Thorne claims to have shot Henry

Question 2

Playwright

Answer 2

-William Gillette

Question 3

William Gillette

Answer 3

• playwright of Secret Service
• adapted Sherlock Holmes and played Sherlock Holmes
• built Gillette Castle in Connecticut

Question 4

Secret Service Acts III and IV

Answer 4

• Caroline wants to write Wilfred –> goes to Telegraph Service –> Arrelsford and Eddinger refuse to send it
• They take her letter –> Arrelsford refuses to send it
• Caroline goes to talk to General Randolph to have her letter sent
• Thorne enters Telegraph Office –> wants to send message to the Union –> telegraph worker tells him about gun under desk
• Arrelsford and Edith are hiding in the same room as Thorne
• Thorne turns off light –> Arrelsford shoots Thorne in hand –> asks Edith to be a witness
• Soldiers outside banging on door –> Thorne frames Arrelsford –> Edith shows them the letter from the president and he is arrested
• Edith fights to prove Thorne’s innocence
• Thorne admits that he’s a spy
• Arrelsford thinks that Thorne has sent the message (he hasn’t)
• Wilfred returns, injured but not fatally
• Thorne breaks into Varney’s house to see his brother
• He discovers that Henry is dead –> Wilfred and Arrelsford arrest him –> Wilfred suggests a fair trial
• They are going to execute him but Jonas switches out the ammunition
• Jonas tells Edith to tell Thorne about the tampered guns
• Edith relays the message, but Thorne tells the sergeant about the guns
• General Randolph confirms that Thorne never sent the message
• Thorne sent to prison until war is over
• Arrelsford is taken off the case
• Randolph offers Thorne to join the Confederates but he refuses
• Thorne and Edith promise to meet again in the future

Question 5

Lewis Dumont

Answer 5

-Captain Thorne’s true identity

Question 6

Henry Dumont

Answer 6

• Lewis Dumont (Captain Thorne’s brother)

- fighting for Union