- The old Atwell home is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener--who is actually the head of a band of thieves that use the house for a hideout--does his best to keep the superstition alive. Despite the rumors, impoverished sisters Lois and Alice Atwell decide to move into the empty family home. They take possession the same night that Ted Rawson is ordered to explore the place as an initiation rite by his fraternity. That same night, Spud Foster, a member of his uncle's gang, hides there with his stolen loot. In the middle of the night, Lois apprehends Ted and takes him captive, believing that he's a burglar. The noise awakens Spud who, mistaking Lois for a ghost, flees the house. After much confusion, Lois' fears about Ted's character are allayed when he helps fight off the thieves; relieved, she confesses her love to the fraternity man.
- The old home of the Atwells is said to be haunted, and Jeremy Foster, the gardener, who is at the head of a notorious gang of thieves, does his best to keep the superstition alive. Old Atwell, upon his death, leaves the house to his great-nieces, Lois Atwell and her married sister, Alice Atwell-King, a widow. Being poor and out of employment, they decide to live in the house in spite of the gossip about its being "haunted." Young Ted Rawson is being initiated into a nearby college fraternity, and part of his initiation demands that he spend a night in the haunted house, the occupation of which the boys are as yet unaware of. In the meantime, Spud, Foster's nephew, and two companions have robbed a bank, and Spud, with the money in a satchel, hides in the garret of the haunted house. The two young girls and the baby retire early, but they are soon aroused by Ted Rawson entering through a window. Armed with a revolver and handcuffs that were given her by officer Clancy, a former neighbor, Lois catches Rawson and handcuffs him to a chair. This noise arouses Spud from his drunken sleep in the garret, and going down through the darkened house, he sees Lois and her sister in trailing white negligees and thinks they are ghosts. He runs to the little cabin of his uncle, the gardener, forgetting the stolen money. Lois believes that Ted is a housebreaker, but she permits him to assist them when the baby is suddenly attacked with croup, and after a hard fight for the child's life they all fall asleep in the chairs. Early the next morning before the girls awaken. Ted escapes and has his mother call on the girls and their cook, Dido, that afternoon. His mother persuades Alice and the baby to stay with her that night but Lois refuses to leave as she is hoping against hope that her "burglar" will come back and explain the mystery, as she cannot believe he is a thief. In the meantime, the three crooks are demanding that spud find their share of the loot, but he refuses to enter the "haunted" house again. Foster, his uncle, decides to make up as old Atwell and frightens the girls away from their house. He meets Lois, who refuses to be frightened and is attacking her just as Ted returns. Ted locks him in a closet. Lois goes upstairs to hide the money which she found in the garret, and while she is gone, the three crooks enter from the garden and overcome Ted, although he puts up a good fight. Loise, hearing the noise, puts on a long white robe, and comes creeping down the stair. The robbers are terror-stricken and fly from the house, only to run into officer Clancy and some other policemen who have come to see how the girls are getting along. Lois, who had believed until now that Ted was the thief and the bank robber, is made more than happy to learn his true identity. The thieves are locked up.
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