- General Rossi, in command of the arsenal in Mexico City, offers to sell the plans of the arsenal to the insurrectos. The offer is accepted and Rossi returns to get the plans. While searching for the documents, Capt. Alonzo Calvo, who is attached to Rossi's staff, enters. He sees the document which the confused Rossi hurriedly places in his pocket but attaches no importance to the incident at the time. Rossi passes the document to an insurrecto spy who, in the guise of a blind beggar, is stationed in front of a church and in exchange receives his pay. The beggar then gropes his way to the outskirts of the city. He is recognized by a Federal lieutenant and a file of soldiers and arrested. Searched at the prison the plans of the arsenal are found in his shirt. Next morning Rossi's command having been moved to the outskirts of the city to meet the attack of the advancing insurrectos, the general receives a letter from the president of Mexico. Rossi, very busy writing, tells Calvo to open and read the communication. The letter states that the enclosed plans of the arsenal were found on a captured insurrecto spy, that but two keys have been issued to the arsenal's strong box, and instructs that Rossi arrest the man responsible for the sale of the plans. Calvo, seeing the document, knows at once that Rossi is guilty. The general, seeing that Calvo knows, and fearing him, determines upon a bold stroke. He arrests Calvo and sends him to prison. Calvo's young bride, Anita, is warned of his arrest and hurries to the courtroom just in time to hear the military judge sentence her husband to be shot. She determines to take desperate measures, mounts her horse, goes to the arsenal, secures a revolver and then, going to camp calls Gen. Rossi out and pleads with him to save Calvo's life. Rossi refuses. Anita then draws the revolver and holding it against Rossi's side compels him to write an order for her husband's release. She snatches the order and starts on her horse for the prison. Rossi, recovering his nerve, calls for his guard and hurriedly writes a countermand of his order for Calvo's release. He is about to hand the order to a messenger when he is shot dead by an insurrecto sharpshooter stationed in a tree some distance away. In falling forward across the table, the order still in his hand. Rossi's other hand knocks over the ink bottle and the ink flows over the fatal order blotting it out. Anita reaches the prison wall with her release just in time to save Calvo from execution.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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