Now a member of the British Secret Service, Wiggins is still out to find the man known as Peter the Painter, the one who killed his friend, Bill. Wiggins' boss, Vernon Kell, has a couple of other pressing issues to be dealt with. The first is the need to find who has been leaking valuable secret intel from the government. The second is the fact that his wife is getting too close to a militant group in the suffragette movement.