Douglas Stallman, U.S. Secret Service Agent, talks over old times with a friend whom he has not seen for years. He tells the story of his big case. Stallman's aid has been sought by the local chief of the government service in an effortto discover and break up a gang of counterfeiters. The only clew is the suspicion that a girl known as Cleo Langdon is in some way connected with them. The ease is placed in Stallman's hands. Cleo Langdon occupies rooms in an exclusive apartment and Stallman takes up his residence there. Having previously seen that the clerk on duty has been warned to watch for counterfeit money Stallman presents some which he has obtained from the secret service bureau and which is supposed to have been made by the counterfeiters, as Cleo stands beside him at the desk. The clerk notes the spurious currency, refusal it and Stallman's actions lead Cleo to suspect that he also is engaged in passing bad money. Consequently, she believes (as Stallman hoped) that he might be of use to the gang. When he attempts to make her acquaintance later she accepts his advances. Time passes and Stallman has learned to know Cleo. He tells her in a burst of confidence that, through the unjust conviction of himself for a crime of which he was not guilty, he has become an enemy to society. Cleo tells her story, a story which really wins his sympathy. Moreover, believing she has found a kindred spirit, Cleo confides that she is connected with the counterfeiters and offers to introduce Stallman to the gang. He accepts. Stallman meets the gang and is accepted on probation. Upon a later visit to their place he waits in the outer room for connection with them. Jamison, the leader of the gang and in love with Cleo, fears that his hold upon her will be gone once she leaves them and refuses her request. Stallman is more than pleased at Cleo's attempt at reformation. Jamison, anxious to pacify Cleo, tells her that if she will carry their plates through to another location which they have chosen the gang will release her. Cleo accepts. As this decision is reached, Stallman is discovered in the anteroom listening. Jamison orders Stallman to be searched, and Cleo's apartment key which Stallman managed to obtain from the door of the apartment is found on him. Jamison accuses Cleo of being Stallman's mistress. Cleo resents his accusation and breaks with the gang. Stallman overhears her denunciation of Jamison from the outer room in which he lies bound. He drags himself to the table in the center, braces himself against it from behind and places his bound feet underneath the rugs on a stool standing nearby. This he throws through the window out on the street below where it barely misses a passerby. A moment later a chair follows. While Cleo and Jamison rage in the inner room the passerby calls the police and notifies them that there is some trouble in the house from which the stool and chair were thrown. As they arrive Cleo leaves Jamison and the others of the gang and passes through the room in which Stallman lies bound. She ignores him. At the door she sees the police and rushes back. To her surprise Stallman advises her that if she wants to escape to hide in the closet. She secretes herself just as the police rush in. The police free Stallman, who immediately slips his secret service badge to Cleo, who isstill in the closet. He then goes to help the police. Jamison and the entire outfit are captured. The police search the room for anyone in hiding and then pass back through the outer room. As they start to enter Stallman stands talking to Cleo. He introduces her to the officer in charge of the squad as a confederate of his and the girl who made it possible for him to break up the gang. On her coat she wears a secret service badge, which Stallman slipped to her. The scene fades out and back into the library. Stallman finishes telling his story, as Cleo, now his wife, enters the room. - Moving Picture World, September 9, 1916, p. 1748-1749