While waiting for the detained Lord Traverse, the guest of honor at an English society party, the guests play a game wherein each must tell a complete story before a cigarette burns out. Heléne Dearing relates that her proud father John left England after being exposed as a card cheat and became a whiskey runner near a Canadian lumber camp.
Heléne Dearing
Ralph Connell, a.k.a. Lord Traverse
Pierre
Captain Westforth
Miss Cadwell
John Dearing
Father Duvall
Mrs. O'Neill
Colonel O'Neill
Philip Brookes
Wild Buffalo
Whispering Grass