Hale is discovered teaching school when he hears of the battle of Lexington and the call to arms. He enlists and is next seen in the camp of the Revolutionists. At school he made an enemy of the town bully, Seth Brown, which later is his undoing. Gen. Washington desiring information as to the number and condition of the British troops, calls for a spy. Hale offers to go, dressed as a country school teacher, inside the British lines. He secures the desired facts for Washington, but is seen and betrayed by Seth Brown, who has joined the British. He is captured, the papers found on him, and is condemned to be hung without trial. The picture ends with a view of Nathan Hale’s statue in City Hall Park, New York, and the subtitles: “137 Years Later, Lest We Forget.”