Storm and Rhodes have a decision to make: deliver a valuable vase as a gift to a maharajah from the British government, or sell the vase and use the money to help out a tribe in desperate need.
Rhodes and Storm find themselves in the middle of a situation involving a cult they are fighting and a munitions manufacturer who supply their ammunition.
Rhodes is on leave in Balipur when he and Storm find out about a plan to kill a British diplomat, only the one planning the murder happens to be an old friend of the Lieutenant.
When a man from Chief Malik's tribe kills a white woman, the chief executes the man. But when a Lancer accidentally kills a woman of the tribe, the Chief seeks the same fate for the soldier.