Ethel, a little flower girl, is saved from the assaults of two thugs by a gentleman in high hat and top coat, who recognizes in the face of the child the features of the wife who left him years before. He takes the child home with him, after learning she is an orphan. Later, when Ethel has fallen in love with her gentleman friend, her adopted father's lawyer, who loves her, steals her father's will and puts in its place several empty sheets of paper. After her father's sudden death on the eve of her marriage, Ethel is left destitute when the lawyer proclaims that no will was left and Ethel cannot prove her blood relationship to her father. She becomes a governess. She is airing her charge in the park one day when the child discovers a revolver--and a piece of paper that proves to be Ethel's father's will. The lawyer had been robbed of his papers by a thief who dropped the will and the revolver in getting away from the police. Ethel and her fiancé now live happily ever after.
—Moving Picture World synopsis