The opening scenes take place just as the war was being declared. Miss Betsy, the heroine, has two lovers, one of Southern tendencies, the other loyal to the North. The Northern young man has been previously favored by the girl, but when he has announced his choice he is cast aside and leaves to join the Northern army with the idea that his sweetheart is lost to him forever. As the war is about to close, however, the action brings his regiment into the neighborhood of the girl’s home, and while on special duty he is pursued by Confederates and is forced to take refuge in the girl’s house. The girl, wavering between love and duty, yields to the former, and the fugitive is hid in an old linen chest and his pursuers turned off the track. He is captured later on, however, and is condemned and is about to die as a spy when the news comes that the war is ended. Convinced by the girl’s interference in his behalf that she still loves him, he returns to her home and claims her hand. He is not wrong surmise. She loves him as much as before and he is again accepted, although not before he and his former rival, the Confederate captain, have shaken hands and have pledged to forget the past and renew the friendship of the Blue and the Gray.