- When a judge is financially ruined by Peter Brownley, a Wall Street millionaire, his daughter seeks revenge by getting a job in the tycoon's office. She manages to discover information that she believes her father can use to recover his swindled money and do to Peter what he did to her father. However, she meets and falls in love with Robert, the son of the man who ruined her father. Complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- So phenomenal was the success of Robert Brownley on the stock market he was called "The Napoleon of Wall Street." Operating with him was his father, Peter Brownley, a long-time enemy of Judge Lee Bands of Virginia. The story opens with Judge Lee Band bankrupt because Peter Brownley had given him a tip on the market. Sands had invested not only his own money, but funds of which he was trustee. His daughter, Beulah, comes to New York to work and through mutual friends, secures a position as confidential secretary to the Brownleys, under the name of Beulah Lee, and Bob Brownley falls in love with her, but she steels herself against him because of the wrongs the Brownleys have done her father. Peter Brownley's second wife, Simone, a woman much younger than he, is carrying on a secret intrigue with Count Varneloff and later transfers her affections to her stepson Bob, who has neither regard nor respect for her. Because of this, Simone becomes his bitter enemy. Judge Sands comes to New York and playing upon Beulah's sympathy and love for him, turns her against the Brownleys until she is willing to betray all their business secrets, and spying upon the Brownley operations, she gives her father a tip on which he makes a new fortune. Beulah gives her father a tip on Salanico Steel with the result that it nearly causes a panic, and Bob learns that Beulah has betrayed him, and when she tells him the reason for her deception was her desire to avenge her father, he forgives her and they elope, believing their marriage would end the feud between the two families. Bob Brownley brings his bride home and going into the library finds the body of Judge Sands lying face downwards on the floor in a pool of blood. Bob hears a noise behind the curtains and drawing them aside discovers his father, and by the look of guilt on his face, Bob, heartbroken, believes he committed the murder. Hearing the police coming, they stumble against a screen which falls to the floor, revealing Simone crouching in terror, pleading piteously that she is not responsible for the crime. The police enter, followed by Beulah, and in the same room discover Varneloff, hidden behind the portieres. The police sergeant refuses to allow anyone to examine the body. Just as they are all about to be arrested, Judge Sands himself enters holding by the collar a shabby derelict. Then, for the first time, the sergeant turns the body over, and it proves to be Wilder. Judge Sands informs the police that while he was waiting in the library he heard an unusual noise. Turning down the lights, he surprised a burglar, who entered to pillage Brownley's safe. As Wilder enters the room, the burglar aimed at Judge Sand, but shot and killed Wilder. Jumping from the window, he was chased by Judge Sands, who called the servants and other police.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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