The midnight son of the House of Kirkland, inspired by the reading of a daring holdup by a band of masked bandits, makes a wager with his club mates that he can duplicate the stunt by holding up a man named Sauterelle and stealing from him The Sultana, a priceless jewel, and then return it to him without his knowing who took it. The foolhardy lark is accomplished, young Kirkland barely escaping detection, and then his nerve deserting him he asks Virginia Lowndes, a guest at the Kirklands, to help him out by returning it. She agrees to do it for him, but the jewel's presence has been discovered by the butler, a man with a doubtful past, who follows her auto and gets possession of it. From that time The Sultana changes hands in rapid sequence, once at the cost of a human life, but finally it finds its way back to its rightful owner, and is also the means of two hearts finding each other.
—Moving Picture World synopsis