[2] A young woman (Louise Rutter), who believes her fiancé (William Harrigan) may have committed a murder, asks Ashton Kirk to investigate the crime.

Kirk uses a train conductor's punch ticket to discover the identity of the murderers, one of whom is a mute, and sets a trap to apprehend the suspects.

[4] Margaret I. MacDonald gave a positive review in The Moving Picture World at the time, saying that Daly knew how to "manufacture and stage a thrilling melodramatic situation".

[5] The Buffalo Evening Times wrote that "a good detective picture relies for much of its suspense on the placement of the scenes.

This film derives much of its mystifying suspense from this arrangement of scenes, although Arnold Daly adds largely to the interest by his brilliant powers of detection".