Hope Brandon, reporter for a New York newspaper, is assigned to dig up facts with reference to Count Stratom's meddling in affairs of the American government. Through her fiancé, Lieut. Strong, of the Navy, she makes the acquaintance of the Count, who has no suspicion of her mission. She finds that Strong has been betrayed into the hands of the Count, by one of his clerks; the Count also secures important code information by drugging Strong in his office. Hope witnesses this, and succeeds in defeating the Count's plans, and securing possession of papers necessary to convict the Count; and at the same time recovers the documents stolen from her lover.