"Hercules" (Victor McLaglen), "Echo" the ventriloquist (Lon Chaney) and his small friend "Tweedledee" (Harry Earles) scrape by performing at various sideshows, always looking for ways to make more money. They devise a plan to use a bird shop as a way of discovering which homes hold valuables ripe for theft, and then, naturally, robbing them! Things seem promising at first. "Echo" disguises himself as an elderly woman…