Waldemar Young

By day, the kind-but-crippled Bishop tends to the poor and destitute; by night, he sheds his clerical garb and his physical disability to become a notorious Limehouse criminal, the Blackbird.

When Tiger Haynes learns his beloved daughter Toyo intends to marry Bobby Bailey, the son of an American circus owner, the Indochina-based animal trapper is skeptical at first, but soon gives his blessing. But when Bobby joins Tiger for a boat ride down the river, the young man soon falls under the seductive spell of fellow passenger Madame de Sylva, Toyo's estranged mother and Haynes' vengeful ex-wife. She attempts to even the score by stealing Bobby away from their daughter.

When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane, a Limehouse magician named Phroso vows to get even. Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel, Phroso spends the next 18 years living with cannibals while he waits for the child to come of age. Summoning the debauched young woman to his jungle lair, Phroso plans to reunite the girl with her long-lost father, after which he'll order the natives to kill the trader and burn Crane's daughter alive!