A young European doctor has come to visit his cousin, an official of the Dutch Government stationed at Djokjakarta, Java. Together they visit the ruins of the ancient summer palace of a onetime Sultan of Djokjakarta and on the trip an old fakir predicts that the young doctor is destined to do some great deed. Next day, reading up an old history of the ruins, the doctor learns that in olden days the Sultan, defeated by the Dutch, surrendered all his regalia except a jeweled dagger. This was hidden away, and tradition says that until it passes into possession of the rulers there can be no abiding peace. And on an old bit of paper in the book, dated 1867, the doctor finds a note to the effect that the only men who know where the missing dagger is are Bimjee Mai, keeper of the ruins, and his young son Devaka, the secret having been passed down in that family from generation to generation. The cousins resolve to follow the clue. They again visit the ruins. Bimjee Mai is long since dead and Devaka is now an old man with a son and a blind daughter. Devaka is reticent and will give no information regarding the dagger, and his young son is even more hostile towards the Europeans. The doctor takes an interest in the blind girl, and pronounces her affliction curable by a slight operation, but the father and especially the brother are very much opposed. Finally the old man, without the son’s knowing it, consents to the operation, and the young girl is made to see. And as an only favor the doctor asks the hiding place of the dagger. In gratitude the old man reveals the secret of centuries, and the doctor, presenting the dagger to the present rulers establishes everlasting peace, according to destiny and tradition.