Only Richard Wentworth knew how pitifully duped were the thousands of innocent New Yorkers, including the entire Police Department, who fervently took up Barnum Wright's battle cry against Crime! How could the Spider prove that Wright's Benevolent Order of Americans was actually the Underworld's New Front in pseudo-patriotic garb—when he lay close to death with a bullet in his spine... and the B.O.A. was already hanging Nita as a spy!