Recently released from prison, John Gray visits his old friend Peter Kane.

Although it is the day of his daughter's wedding, Kane agrees to an audience with Emanuel Legg, the criminal and cop-killer with whom he has some business.

Gray wanders into the garden and a tornado of fury sweeps through him.

The debonair Major Floyd, the new husband to whom Kane has entrusted his precious daughter, is a fraudster of the most sinister kind.