Based on the short story by Oscar Wilde. After Lord Arthur has had his palm read by Podgers who tells him he will commit a murder, he feels duty bound to get it over with before his marriage to Sybil. But, aided by the anarchist Winkelkopf, his attempts prove futile. It emerges Podgers is a charlatan and so Lord Arthur is free but on the way to the wedding rehearsal he finds the carriage contains Winkelkopf's newest bomb.