The female crook and her accomplice rob the clerk and cause him to lose his position. He becomes addicted to drink and ceases to write to the old folks at home. They advertise for boarders, and fate brings the female crook, who is ill, to their home, where she is treated almost as a daughter. When she learns the truth she seeks out the clerk in his haunts. He denounces her, and in shame, she pleads only to be allowed to take him home. The final moving scene shows her stealing away from the happiness that might have been hers.
—Moving Picture World synopsis