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In his room at the Monumental Hotel, Lord John recalls the stirring events of the night before and makes clear just what happened when, he rescued Maida Odell from the Gray Sisterhood. Maida insists on rejoining the Gray Sisterhood. Lord ...See moreIn his room at the Monumental Hotel, Lord John recalls the stirring events of the night before and makes clear just what happened when, he rescued Maida Odell from the Gray Sisterhood. Maida insists on rejoining the Gray Sisterhood. Lord John, convinced that a mystery is to be solved, delays his departure for Europe. He calls in Paul Teano, the Bertillon expert, and instructs him to make photographs of certain fingerprints, he, Lord John, has discovered on a strange box found under his bed. Lord John also explains to Paul that two nights previous, two strange women, dressed in the garb of the Gray Sisterhood, occupied a room across the hall from him, and that someone invaded his room, stealing from him certain diagrams to the electrical wiring of Maida Odell's mummy. Lord John leaves to visit Miss Odell and to urge her against rejoining the Gray Sisterhood. The Gray Sisterhood, supervised by a strange, unknown woman, is chartered as a charity organization, with certain secret orders. It is also known that this strange woman is the sister of one Rameses, an Egyptian seer and hypnotist. It is also suggested that Rameses is the person who is exercising the strange, untraceable influence over Maida Odell's mummy, which Rameses knows contains valuable jewels, and also to work the death of Maida Odell, without, however, endangering himself in the slightest degree to the police. Lord John arrives at the Odell home, but is refused admittance to Maida. Simultaneous with Lord John's arrival, the Head Sister arrives and is admitted to Maida. Lord John tries to pass a note in to Maida, but the Head Sister steals this note, which informs Maida that he has reasons to suspect the integrity of the Gray Sisterhood. Meantime, Paul Teano has made a startling discovery. In the room across the hall he has found the print of a woman's hand with but three fingers. This he photographs along with the fingerprints of a child's hand inside the strange box. Lord John enters with the angry motorcycle policeman, his captive. Paul Teano studies the fake policeman for a second and then leaps for his throat. The fake cop is locked in the bathroom while Lord John demands an explanation from Paul. Paul proceeds to tell him his story. In Italy, Paul's wife, Jenny, was taken away by an interpreter, one Tony. She took with her their child, Nickie. Paul came to America to search for the girl and to forgive her, and to be revenged against the man, Tony. Jenny had lost one of her fingers. It was the discovery of the strange hand in the adjoining room that first agitated Paul. The fake con is the man Paul has been searching for. And so it is Jenny, as a member of the Gray Sisterhood has been used as a tool by the Head Sister to carry out her brother, Rameses', work. The false cop escapes. Disguised as Coast Guards and preparing with a speedy motorboat, Lord John and Paul invade the Gray Sisterhood that night. Lord John fails to rescue Maida, but between the two men they succeed in rescuing Three Fingered Jenny. A short distance from the Gray Sisterhood Jenny is more than willing to return to Paul, but explains that they hold her son, Nickie, a captive, and that he will suffer unless she returns. Lord John observes Rameses with Nick emerging from a secret underground passage leading to the Gray Sisterhood and attempting to escape with the boy. Lord John, with Paul and Jenny, gives chase. Rameses, forcing Nickie along with him, takes refuge in one of his own speedy motorboats in a bay a mile away. Lord John, with the others, follows in the boat he has prepared for such an emergency. Rameses' boat is finally overtaken. There is a struggle and in making good his escape, Rameses returns to his secret den, there to find the cringing Tony, who realizes his punishment to be severe for his failure to keep Lord John out of the fracas. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less