- Judge Grant sentences Paul Rogers to jail on circumstantial evidence, Paul's sister Lena swears revenge. A few years later, Judge Grant becomes a corporation attorney for a large firm. In collusion with the owners, Grant embezzles the firm's profits, thus forcing the value of the stock down and creating favorable conditions for a takeover. Lena, on the pretext of making an investment, meets the judge, who falls in love with her. Lena uses his infatuation to discover that the judge himself stole the money. Meanwhile, Lena has fallen in love with Tison Grant, a newspaper reporter and the judge's brother, and after they are married, she informs Tison of his brother's treachery. Tison threatens to give the story to the papers, but before he can, Paul is released from jail, kills the judge, and is wounded in the scuffle. Lena takes the blame for the killing but is freed from suspicion when Paul confesses before he dies.—Pamela Short
- Lena Rogers and her brother Paul, orphans, have suffered from poverty. She earns their living as a fortune-teller, Paul being the bally-hoo. A woman's pocketbook is stolen and Paul and Lena accused. Paul takes the blame, and is sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. Lena knows this means death to her brother, who is in ill health, and goes to plead with the judge, but he threatens to have her arrested for annoying him, and she vows revenge. In her tent she had once seen Tison Grant, brother to the judge, who is a reporter. Tison urges his brother to show leniency toward Paul. Time passes. Judge Grant has become a corporation lawyer and is now engineering a crooked deal. Tison is a city journalist, and is exposing the deal, but can't lay his finger on the man higher up. Lena, through slaving and scheming, finally becomes forewoman of a modiste shop. She meets Judge Grant and he falls in love with her. She discovers Grant is the brains of the graft deal. Lena meets Tison. Both fall in love. Paul writes a letter depicting his misery. Lena accepts the judge's proposal and promises to meet him the next day, but she marries Tison. They return to the Grant home. There is a terrible scene in which Lena discloses the judge as the franchise grifter. Tison hesitates in exposing his brother and Lena upbraids him furiously. Enraged, she leaves the house. Tison gives the judge the preference of prosecution of leaving the state. When Lena arrives at her own apartment, she finds Paul, who has just been released. He sees a note from the judge with his address. The judge is leaving the house when Paul enters and fires at him. He falls just as Lena bursts into the room. She snatches the pistol and tells Paul to make his escape. Tison rushes down the stairs and thinks Lena has shot his brother. A policeman who has seen Paul enters and Lena is willing to sacrifice herself, when Paul is seized with a fit of coughing. Before they reach him Paul dies from a hemorrhage. The policeman finds Grant is not dead, and Lena's sorrow brings her closer in the affections of Tison and affords a means of reconciliation.
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