Carleton Kirby, a thieving politician, offers Senator Denton ten thousand dollars to vote for his bill in the Senate. Denton refuses and angrily dismisses Kirby from the house. Later in the day, however, Denton changes his mind and writes Kirby a letter agreeing to vote for the bill if the offer still holds good. This letter he neglects to mail and leaves it in his desk. Called out of town, Denton is seated in the railway station when his disorganized brain conjures up a vision of himself on the floor of the Senate, congratulated first by his colleagues for putting the bill through and then, as the price of his vote is discovered, surrounded by a cursing, angry mob, who threaten his very life. Hastening to a telegraph office Denton wires his daughter, Renee, to destroy the letter in his desk addressed to Kirby. Winslow, a friend of Kirby's, discovers the contents of the wire, hastens to Denton's home, secures the incriminating letter, substitutes a blank in its place and takes it at once to Kirby who conceals it in the top of his hollow walking-stick for safety. The theft is discovered and Denton realizes he is trapped. A detective is employed, but fails to find the letter in Kirby's house. To save her father, Renee now adopts a disguise of a lady agent, hires a tough to shoot and scream under Kirby's window and, in the excitement secures the letter from the hollow cane. Returning home she restores it to her father, and with a prayer of thanksgiving in his heart he takes her in his arms and gives thanks for his salvation.