Morton, an adventurer, exploring in the wilds of India, steals from a sacred temple the “Eye” of the God which the natives worship. He makes good his escape and finally reaches America. The Indians, wild at the sacrilege which their God has been subjected to, swear vengeance. Twenty years pass; Morton, now a rather old man, lives alone with his daughter, Judith. The twenty years have made Morton practically a weakling, the fear of the Orient being always uppermost in his mind. At length the blow falls. One evening after having just looked at the wonderful stone, which he practically worships, he returns to his library to find his daughter wildly staring into space. Immediately he knows. They have come. Judith comes to herself and tells her father of the dark man she has seen and how under his powerful gaze, she seemed to float into oblivion. Morton, thinking always of the precious “Eye,” hides it again. The final blow falls when his daughter, having just told Howard, her lover, goodnight, suddenly disappears. Morton realizes that after twenty years, vengeance has at last come. Morton is completely broken under the strain and Howard, sticking to him after the servants all leave, at last convinces him that the only thing to do is to return the “Eye” to the natives. True to Howard’s judgment, the natives secure the stone and return Judith to them, but under the influence of a hypnotic spell. She does not recognize them. Both Morton and Howard are frantic. Meanwhile, the leader of the Indians, having returned to the ones who are helping him, sends them back to India with the “Eye” to hastily appease the wrath of their God. He remains to further wreak vengeance on Morton. The penalty is death. The Indian returns just as Howard is told by Morton. They secrete themselves behind a movable painting Howard prepared for defense. The Indian suspicions their hiding-place when he hears the noise made by Howard dropping a sword, and thrusts his dagger into the painting. This narrowly misses Howard, and he in turn makes a thrust through the painting, the cut taking effect on the native’s wrist. A terrific hand-to-hand struggle takes place, during which the Indian gets Howard under his spell. Morton, meanwhile, a little of his nerve returning, fires. The Indian falls. At the moment of the Indian’s death, Judith’s senses return to her. Later, the “Eye” is returned to the God, and the curse, Morton’s deadened and blackened hand, is removed, the flesh once again regaining its natural color and life. The story ends with this last scene, Morton looking in awe at his restored hand, and Howard and Judith clasped in each other’s arms.