- A man who through financial losses has turned burglar, brings to justice the man who ruined him when he learns that his sister's sweetheart has also been swindled in a like manner. - Motion Picture News 1915.
- A burglar, robbing a young society man's home, hears the man returning and hides behind the curtains. The man enters, haggard and worried. He turns up the lights and after a drink takes out a press clipping and reads of the failure of an illegal bucket shop run by a man named Adams. Arling is mentioned as being one of the creditors whose fortune had gone. The burglar, closely watching, sees Arling study the photo of a girl upon his desk, then read a letter from her which seems to cut deep. In the letter the girl tells him she can never marry him because of a tragedy in her life, the shadow of which is bound to come between them. The bitterness in his heart drives him to desperation. He gets a revolver from the desk and as he makes a move to shoot himself the burglar, sneaking up behind him, gets the gun. Arling lowers his hands and tells the burglar to shoot, as he has nothing left to live for. The burglar reads both clipping and note, both of which he pockets, and studies the photograph. Arling does not notice the trembling hands that replace the photo. With quick decision the burglar turns from Arling then ties and gags him with the curtain cords. Telling Arling he will have reconsidered by morning he leaves, taking the other's gun and locking the door behind him. Fearing Arling may loose his bonds and then try the gas exit, the burglar cuts off the gas in the cellar. The burglar then goes to Adams' rooms where that gentleman is ready to make his getaway with the spoils of his stock gambling. Adams is panic-stricken when the burglar confronts him. The burglar tells him he has come back and threatens. Adams gives up the money and a note that is for his creditors. The burglar next goes to the girl. She greets him half hysterically. He shows the letter she wrote Arling and explains. Then the girl writes a note telling Arling to come to her, that she has reconsidered. The burglar returns to Arling and finds him asleep, the gas turned on. Arling is finally awakened and learns he is not dead, as the gas was turned off. He is still of the same mind, however, until the burglar shows him the money and letters. The burglar is leaving when Arling calls him back and demands enlightening as to why he has done all this. The burglar then tells Arling that the girl is his sister and that the year before, when his father died, a fortune was left them. He invested his part in a mining proposition promoted by Adams and was swindled. In desperation he went to Adams' home, confronted him with the facts and instead of getting satisfaction was wounded in the head by a shot from a revolver. From that time until he picked up his sister's photo he remembered nothing. Rumors of a crooked life had come to his sister's ears and was the tragedy in her life. Arling makes the burglar understand that he has done him a wonderful service and he is now going to reciprocate.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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