Synopsis: Wikipedia: Includes Meredith Beckwith's story and Lucy Dare's story and is told in two parts. Meredith Beckwith betrays her husband by giving information to an investigator and, thereby, crippling her husband's case. Lucy Dare chooses the Confederate cause over her fiance's life, revealing his hiding place. Both told by male narrators, the suggested relationship between the stories may be summarized by the statement that both protagonists make in the story: "I had to do it....I would do it again!"