In the west, Mr. James Travers is known by quite a different name, and many cities west of Chicago have his rather handsome features in their local “Rogue’s Gallery.” His wife is as notorious as he, and Fogarty, his companion, is well known at headquarters in New York City. After arriving at a fashionable hostelry in the latter city, they receive a visit from a well-known jeweler, who has come to them after being requested to bring with him a valuable necklace. Once in their apartment, a blackjack in the hands of Fogarty drops him unconscious into a chair, and the crooks make their escape from the hotel with the stolen jewels. But in the struggle following the first blow on the head, the jeweler has torn Fogarty’s collar from his neck, and Revelle, from headquarters, who has been assigned to the case, eventually finds the laundry, where the New York crook has been haying his laundry done, and in that way traces the nefarious trio to Fogarty’s house. Coming there in the evening, after he has seen the three crooks leave together he lets himself in with a skeleton key. He is surprised by the crooks, who return unexpectedly, and is made a prisoner. He is left tied up in the cellar. Revelle’s daughter, Bessie, is on her way home from the telegraph office where she is employed. She meets Tom Merriwell, her sweetheart, and stops to speak to him. While they are chattering, Bessie hears some tapping on the stand-pipe which rises from the ground and passes the outer wall of a nearby house. Listening, she discovers that someone is tapping out a message in the telegraph code, on the pipe. “Help. Help. Help. The cellar,” it calls repeatedly. Tom calls another policeman, and the party bursts into the house. In the cellar, they find Bessie’s father bound and gagged. Acquainted with the telegraph code, he had sent the message of distress, with the lucky result shown. Examining some old letters in the room above, Revelle finds a signature that gives him a new clue. He finally discovers the house in which the three crooks are hiding, and makes his way into the cellar. Here, hiding in a barrel, he sees them come down and take the corks from a couple of wine bottles standing on the shelves against the wall. Out of these bottles they take two or three splendid necklaces, the proceeds of former robberies, and they indicate that other bottles also contain stolen jewels. They are about to slip their latest haul into a bottle when the detective springs up and covers them with a revolver, firing one shot to attract the attention of the young policeman, Tom, who is waiting outside. The three crooks are made prisoners, and taken to the station house. Bessie, come to inquire as to her father’s whereabouts, finds him there, and after the jewel robbers have been safely locked up, Revelle, his daughter, and his future son-in-law, their day’s work done, stroll home together.