- Ralph Brooks, although engaged to Julia Dean, meets and becomes infatuated with Rita Reynolds. She gains his sympathy by telling untrue stories of her husband's brutality. They plan to run away together but while Rita is taking a large sum of money from her husband's safe, he returns early from a business trip and a fight ensues which results in her husband's death. "Red" Hall, a burglar is a witness and he extorts the money from Rita. Then Ralph enters. realizes what is happening and makes the mistake of telling Rita he is no longer infatuated with her. She reacts by covering him with a revolver, and telephones the police, and Ralph soon finds himself in prison. Meanwhile, "Red" Hall is forcing Rita to give masquerade balls so he can rob her friends. Ralph, with the help of a convict pal. "Tug" Riley, escapes from prison and has a plan to prove Rita was the party to killed her husband.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- At a fashionable reception, Ralph Brooks falls under the influence of Rita, the designing wife of John Reynolds, a wealthy broker. By relating untrue tales of brutality on the part of her husband, she awakens the young man's sympathy, and this gradually develops into a mad infatuation which neither his mother nor Julia, his sweetheart, seem able to dispel. Rita and Ralph decide to elope and she robs her husband's safe before leaving. "Red" Hall, a crook, enters the house and sees her at the safe. Reynolds discovers his wife and in a furious quarrel, is shot by Rita. She sees Hall, and at the point of her gun, the desperate woman holds him there while she calls the police, intending to accuse him of killing her husband. Ralph arrives and experiences a revulsion of feeling towards the woman. He spurns her, and enraged, she orders the burglar to escape, then turns the gun on Ralph. The police arrive and on her accusation, arrest him for the crime. Her testimony sends him to prison for twenty years. There he is the means of reforming his cellmate, "Tug" Riley. Later, Tug and Ralph escape from prison and reach the city in safety. At the same time, several other convicts escape and seize an automobile. Their pursuers, the keepers, telephone ahead to the bridge tender, who opens the draw. The car plunges into the river and its occupants are drowned. Meanwhile, Rita, being blackmailed by Hall, is ordered to hold a masquerade ball. Hall plans a big robbery and secures Riley's pretended assistance. In a sensational manner, Riley turns the tables on Hall and the crook is "caught with the goods." Rita breaks down and confesses all. Ralph is taken back to prison with Riley and Rita but is later pardoned and happily reunited with his mother and sweetheart.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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