During the Third Carlist War in Spain, a naïve, unnamed narrator becomes caught in a love triangle with the beautiful Dona Rita and Captain Blunt, a veteran of the American Civil War.

Having joined the forces of the pretender to the Spanish throne, the inexperienced narrator is persuaded to undertake dangerous missions in aid of the cause, only to fall hopelessly in love with the financier of the expeditions, Dona Rita.

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