This short story is a summary of one plot. It takes place in Ireland. Fergus Kilpatrick was the leader of the conspirators. He died on the eve of the victorious uprising; the circumstances of his death are mysterious. He was shot dead in the theater; the police were never able to solve the case. Almost a hundred years later, Ryan, Kilpatrick's descendant and biographer, discovers that the murder mystery goes beyond a purely criminal case...