Doris Westley is an artist's model posing for Phil Valentine. Horace Grant, another artist, who occupies an adjoining studio, meets Doris and the pair soon become interested in each other. Francis Hargreave, millionaire man-about-town, uses his alleged love of art as a means for gratifying his evil passions. By loaning Valentine a considerable sum of money, he places the young artist in his power. Through him he meets several models. Among them is Doris Westley, whose beauty attracts him immediately. Valentine is, in reality, a gentleman burglar, his work as an artist in reality being a blind. On one of his night prowls he is observed by Hargreave coming from a house, which he has robbed. Thus he is doubly in the latter's power. Horace Grant and Doris Westley give a party at the former's studio to announce their engagement. Hargreave and Valentine attend. The millionaire tells Valentine that unless he can place Doris into his hands, he will expose him. Valentine returns to his own studio intent upon making a get-away, but in going over his stolen plunder, he conceives a wild scheme to place Doris in the power of Hargreave. He takes a stolen necklace to her, asking her to wear it that night and saying that he had borrowed it from a friend, a pawnbroker, in order that she might wear it on this occasion. Getting Hargreave aside he informs him that Doris is wearing stolen jewels. Hargreave takes the hint, goes to Doris and tells her the necklace she is wearing was stolen and that unless she leaves with him immediately, he will cause her arrest as a thief. Perplexed and bewildered, the girl leaves with Hargreave, hoping something may intervene to save her. Horace Grant, her sweetheart, misses her, leaves his studio and in the hall finds her handkerchief and some hairpins, which she dropped on the floor and thus realizes that she has left the building. In the street he learns from a chauffeur that she has just gone away with a man answering Hargreave's description. He follows to the latter's apartment and breaks in upon the pair. Doris tells him what has happened. A policeman, finding the window smashed, enters and on the demand of Grant, places Hargreaves under arrest. They return to the studio and capture Valentine as he is making his get-away.