This is a story of the far Southwest, of the high mountains, abandoned dwellings, venomous Apaches, and a hunt for a treasure lost by Spaniards many generations ago. Charles Wayne is a telegrapher at a small way station in Arizona. A man who seems to be a tramp, staggers from the desert into his little office and dies there. But before his death he utters disjointed sentences about a great treasure concealed in the distant and lofty mountains. The adventures of Charles in search of this treasure form the basis of the story.