Bill Ensor is the silent partner of Bluff Stuart in a gambling place. An unpleasant feeling is created between the partners because Stuart feels that Bill's efforts to keep things fair and square are ruining the business. Bill incurs the enmity of the Kid, when he prevents the Kid, slightly intoxicated, from sitting in a poker game. Stuart frames up an attack on Ensor, in which the Kid shoots Ensor in the shoulder. Ensor is taken to a hospital where he meets Sharlee Evans, a nurse, the Kid's sister. Ensor falls in love with Sharlee, and she returns the affection. A hospital surgeon who cares for Sharlee learns by a visit to the gambling rooms that Ensor is Stuart's silent partner, and uses this information with Sharlee against Ensor. She refuses to believe the accusation until Ensor himself admits it. Ensor proposes to Sharlee, but is refused because he is a gambler. She tells him how in years previous Stuart induced her father to sell his hardware business to join Stuart in gambling, and how Stuart fleeced him out of his money, the loss of which caused her father to kill himself. The sting of her father's disgrace was renewed by "The Kid's" lax morals and gambling tendency. Ensor leaves her, intending to sell out to Stuart, and engage in a reputable business. Bill has a serious talk with the Kid in which he tells the boy of Stuart's part in the father's ruin. Stuart, meanwhile, showers his porter's girl with attentions, and dismisses the waiter for interfering. The jealous waiter plots to kill Stuart. The Kid goes to Stuart to confront him with the facts regarding his father. In a fit of anger the Kid struggles with Stuart, who has an empty revolver in his hand. The waiter, outside a window, shoots Stuart. The Kid thinks he has killed Stuart. Just as the fatal shot is fired, Ensor enters, takes the revolver from the Kid, who escapes through the window, and upon the arrival of the police, Ensor is accused of the murder and exonerated when they discover the revolver is empty and has not been fired. Upon reaching home, the Kid tells Sharlee of his crime and Ensor's acceptance of the accusation; and she insists that the Kid return to exonerate Ensor. In the meantime, the waiter is caught and confesses. The Kid's manhood asserts itself, and Ensor takes him west, where the story closes with a letter from Sharlee to Ensor, hinting a happy reunion to come. - Moving Picture World, April 1, 1916