Lieutenant Adams, U.S.A., on special duty in Cuba in the fall of 1897 fell deeply in love with Alva Bellins, daughter of General Bellins of the Spanish army. Shortly after the war broke out in 1888, General Bellins was killed in action. Jose, his son, Alva’s twin brother, was at his father’s aide when he fell. Just before his death the general gave Jose important dispatches to be delivered to another division of the Spanish army. The death of his father paralyzed Jose with terror. A wild impulse for flight seized him and flinging to the winds all thoughts of the honor which had always been attached to the Bellins name, he fled from the field, crept to his home, divested himself of the uniform and put on civilian’s clothes. Alva knocked on his door as he finished dressing. Ashamed to face her, Jose escaped by the window and Alva entering found the uniform and the dispatches General Bellins had given to Jose realizing the situation. Alva decided to return the honor her brother had forfeited. Accordingly she dressed herself in his uniform, placed the dispatches in an inside pocket and set out for the distant Spanish camp. On the way she was intercepted by American soldiers, fired at and seriously wounded. In a fainting condition she was taken before their commanding officer, Lieutenant Adams, who after continued questioning at length discovered her identity. Alva, feeling that her brother’s honor was hopelessly lost, now that she had failed in her mission, fainted away. A moment later shots were heard outside and some time afterward the body of a Spaniard was brought into the tent. It was Jose. He had discovered his sister’s sacrifice, and had taken the only means in his power to relieve her of her responsibility. With his arm about the weeping girl, Adams promised her that Jose should have a soldier’s funeral and that the blot upon their name should be forgotten.