Plot

This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country. She leaves his car and walks home. He meets a beautiful woman whose husband, unjustly jealous of her is hiring men to 'get something on her.' He sends for his own wife to come and frame this man. The wife, posing as an agent for beauty preparations, vamps the man and makes an appointment with him. While they are at supper his car is tampered with. He and the woman come out - he very drunk or drugged - and get into the car. There is a long struggle in which the woman is badly bruised. The man becomes unconscious and the car is wrecked. He awakens in a hut with a broken arm and is led to believe that he has killed the girl. Then a man of destiny blackmails him - gets a check for $50,000 which he gives to the injured wife and she marries the boy of whom her husband was jealous.—anonymous

Ruth McEwen is unhappily married, her husband suspecting an innocent friendship with Alan Gordon, a friend of her girlhood. Rex Darrow, rich and philanthropic, learns of Ruth's domestic troubles, and evolves a plan to help her and prevent McEwen encompassing Gordon's business failure. Rex gets his sister to entrap McEwen, and when the latter is recovering from the effects of a drunken bout, persuades him that he has committed a murder. He gets McEwen to pay a big price for silence regarding the supposed crime, and packs him off abroad, leaving Ruth and Alan to become united.—The Film Renter and Moving Picture News, January 30, 1926