Wing Fu, brings the bonds to the USA to buy war planes for an unnamed country, and quickly loses them to Quong Lee, a Eurasian underworld chief.
The Bonds are re-taken by Red Barry.
Ballet dancer Natasha, representing a ruthless group of Russians, acquires the bonds.
Barry gets the bonds back.
Hong Kong Charlie, an agent for Wing Fu, goes after Barry to get the bonds, but isn't successful, and is killed.
Valentine Vane, aka Harry Dicer, a criminal investigator, takes the bonds from Barry.
Quong Lee re-acquires the bonds again.
Lyceum Theatre (where Natasha dances) manager C. E. Mannix pops up with them in chapter eight, and the question of the day is how did he get them from Quong Lee? The answer is , though portrayed by two different people, William Ruhl and Frank Lackteen, Mannix and Quong Lee, for the "storyline" are one and the same as the Oriental makeup is only a disguise.
Two Russians, Petrov and Igor grab the bonds, but Barry just as quickly grabs them back.
Somehow (keep up the best you can) Wing Fu has the bonds.
Mannix gets the bonds again.
Mannix hides them in Natacha's trunk and Vane steals the bonds, and Mannix promptly shoots Vane.
Mannix recovers the bonds again. But, since chapter thirteen is the concluding chapter, his ownership doesn't last long.