Aboard the fishing boat called the Bessie Ann lying in anchor near the small main village, Captain Midnight accused Shelby, the owner of the vessel, of accepting an offer to join forces with a mysterious fleet of smugglers working out of the nearby town of Batesville. When Captain Midnight, who rightly suspects that the smuggling activities are connected with the gigantic plot against the United States, heard that Shelby was completely unknown in Batesville, he hit upon a brilliant and dangerous scheme to pass himself off as Shelby and Chuck as his son...