The Friend of the Chief Executive
Written by
George Bronson-Howard
Copyright 1905
Originally published in The Popular Magazine in October, 1905. One of the stories in .
Yorke Norroy has just returned from a mission in Russia when the Secretary of State hurriedly summons him. It is feared there is a mole in the State Department and it falls to Norroy to find who it is. Norroy's prime suspect is a man named Kennedy, a close friend of the President, who has been visiting the Saxonian consul in Baltimore a lot recently.