- Jimmie Hallet is walking through a heavy fog one night when, seemingly out of nowhere, a girl appears, shoves a bundle of papers and a slip of paper with an address on it into Jimmie's hands, then disappears. Intrigued, he goes to the address on the paper, and is promptly knocked out by a blackjack. When he wakes up the next morning he discovers the dead body of a man named Greye-Stratton and learns that the "mystery girl" was Stratton's daughter Peggy. Jimmie soon finds himself questioned by the police about her father/s murder and mixed up with a gang of thieves and killers led by a mysterious thug named Ling.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Jimmie Hallet steps from his club into a fog-blanketed night and stops under an electrolier to light a cigarette. As he does so, a girl thrusts a package of papers into his hand and vanishes in the fog, but not before Hallet gets a glimpse of her features. The papers left with Hallet include a bundle of canceled checks and an envelope giving a street address. He goes to the address. As Hallet enters the house, he is felled by two burglars who previously had killed Mr. Greye-Stratton, owner of the house, when Hallet regains consciousness he calls police headquarters. The murder of Greye-Stratton is a mystery, but Chief Menzies suspects the slain man's profligate son. Peggy Greye-Stratton, who left her father's roof because of his oppression of herself and her brother, visits headquarters to learn if they have captured the murderer. Hallet arrives and the girl is sent into an ante-room. Later she is put in the identification line and Hallet recognizes in her the girl of the fog. He pretends not to know her, but as she starts from the building he stops her, revives old acquaintance, and leaves with her. Returning to headquarters, Hallet learns that Peggy is the wife of a criminal named Ling, and Menzies expresses the belief that she is shielding her brother, a member of Ling's gang. Hallet goes to his apartment and there receives a note from Peggy, begging him to go to her aid. Hallet is admitted to the house by a woman, Gwennie Lyne, chief aid of Ling. She springs a trap and Hallet is plunged into a cellar. Menzies enters the house and meets the same fate. When he finds Hallet, the latter is bound and gagged. They escape from the cellar, but not before the gang has fled. The police begin a round-up of his gang. Two, "Dago Sam" and Cincinnati Red, are arrested. Red leads the police to a house, but Ling, suspecting treachery, makes him a prisoner. The police enter and Ling opens fire on them. He escapes over the rooftops and goes to another house, where Hallet has gone to meet Peggy. She has just shown Hallet her brother, dying, when Ling enters the room. There is a fight and Hallet fells Ling with a chair. He then flees the house. The police learn Ling's new hiding place and the fact that he is wounded. They get into the house, but while they are searching upstairs Ling sets fire to the building and escapes with Gwennie, who had been acting as housekeeper and guard over Peggy. The two seek refuge in a Chinese den. Menzies and Hallet force their way into the opium den and after a fight overpower Ling. Ling, Gwennie, and "Dago Sam" are brought together at headquarters. Finally the gun with which Greye-Stratton was killed is flashed, and Sam admits that he fired the shot. This clears up the mystery. Peggy tells Hallet she had married Ling to prevent him from exposing a minor crime of her brother's, but Menzies reveals the fact that she was not really Ling's wife, because he has another wife living. Thus Peggy and Hallet, their romance born in the maelstrom of mystery, are free to wed.
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