Robert Lathrop is involved in a love affair with Lola Monroe and is hard pressed for cash. He goes to Nicholas Eyre, steel king and friend of his wife's dead father, for assistance. Eyre refuses him and he gets his wife to intercede Unknown to her he gets $1,000. Going to the luxurious apartments of his mistress he finds her in the arms of her lover. A light ensues and Lathrop is killed. Mary, Lathrop's wife, knew nothing of her husband's infatuation and blames Eyre for her husband's death. She determines to avenge his death and affiliates herself with a crowd of anarchists led by Professor Groesbeck. Mary secures work in Eyre's steel foundry and incites the workmen to strike. Eyre, however, hears of the proposed strike and arrives at the plant in tune to avert it. Mary then finds the returned check which her husband had received from Eyre and realizes the truth. Eyre comes to claim her and is not repulsed.
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