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Mary Denby becomes a seamstress after her husband Steve wastes their money on booze. Her employer provides her as an escort to accompany millionaire Roger Manning. Her husband tries blackmailing Manning and is later killed by the police, leaving Mary free to wed the millionaire.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Steve Denby spends all the money be can get on drink and finally forces Mary, his wife, when the funds are exhausted, to seek employment. In answer to a newspaper advertisement Mary secures a position as seamstress in the home of a wealthy society woman, Mrs. Hillary. Mr. Hillary is a promoter and wishes to interest the wealthy young bachelor, Roger Manning, in a scheme which he is promoting. He invites him to a dinner party to meet a beautiful young woman. The beauty fails to appear. As a last resort, Mrs. Hillary dresses Mary in a stunning gown and has her take the place of the absent guest. Manning promptly falls head over heels in love with Mary, who conducts herself with great dignity and modesty, and he is about to become interested in Mr. Hillary's scheme when Steve Denby breaks into the Hillary house where both Manning and Mary are spending the weekend. Steve enters his wife's room and steals all the valuables. They recognize each other, but Mary permits him to escape. In sneaking down the stairs Steve meets Manning. The house is aroused, and while Manning is telephoning for the police, Mary induces the Hillarys to permit her husband to escape, rather than have Manning know that she is the wife of the prisoner. The next morning Mary goes back to her tenement home and there Steve plans to blackmail the wealthy bachelor. He sends him a note, which he forces Mary to sign, to come to the tenement. When Manning arrives, Steve and another crook attempt to force him to give them money. The two men attempt to shoot Manning, when Manning's chauffeur, who is downstairs in the street below, hears the noise and calls the police. As the police enter, Denby shoots one of them and is in turn shot and killed as he attempts to climb up the fire escape. Though shocked at the death of her husband, Mary, realizing her love for Manning, goes to his waiting arms.—Moving Picture World synopsis