- Tom is a wire walker who gets injured. Patricia reads to him as he heals. Tom now works in a law office. Patricia is a reporter who gets caught up in a story involving political crooks. She's in a bind. Can Tom save her in time?
- Patricia Beverly's love story opens when young Tom Stratton is carried from the circus tent where he has broken his leg and to the home of the village doctor. Tom is known in the business as "The King of the Wire," and after the show has left town, and he is being cared for by the doctor's wife, Patricia comes to visit him, reading to him and talking of many things of which, up to the time of his fall from the wire, he had never dreamed. It is almost a case of love at first sight, but Tom knows that he is illiterate and poor, and Patricia can do but little to show her feelings toward him. The doctor backs up Patricia when she persuades Tom to give up the circus life and work his way through college, and "The King of the Wire" becomes a student. The sudden death of Patricia's grandfather makes it necessary for her to earn her own living, she being an orphan. A former young man of the village, Bob Hunter, who has shown a great interest in her, has gone to New York and entered politics, and since he is the only one she knows in the city, Patricia writes to him asking him to try to get her a job, in spite of the fact that she has never cared for him and believes him to be entirely unworthy as a lover. Hunter secures Patricia a position on a city paper, and tries to press his suit, but while showing her gratitude for what he has done she manages to hold him aloof. Meantime, Tom is silent concerning his love for Patricia, and she throws her whole energy into making good in the newspaper game. A reporter having failed to secure a much desired interview with Senator Strong, who is seeking to pass a Child Labor bill, Patricia applies for the assignment and gets it. Hunter, actively engaged in city politics, is one of those who are trying to prevent the passage of the bill. He and another politician frame up a deal with a notorious crook, whereby the senator will be forced into signing a paper that will ruin him politically if it is made public. Patricia fails to get to the senator in the ordinary way, but nothing daunted, she dresses as a little girl and manages to meet the senator's two little daughters, who are playing near the house. She ingeniously manages to get them to take her inside the house, and while there, the senator not suspecting that she is anything but what she appears, she gets a lot of facts that are just what she needs for her write-up. Hunter and the crook enter and cover the senator with a revolver. He is told that he must sign the paper, which will be shown to the world and thereby bring about his ruin if he does not promise to withdraw his Child Labor bill. Patricia and the children entering the room are also held up by Hunter and his companion, but Patricia breaks away and runs to an upper room, giving the alarm by telephone. This is the day upon which Tom has visited her in the city, and finding her out, has followed her. Seeing her at the window, calling to him for help, he climbs a nearby pole, a wire from which stretches to and enters the senator's house close to the window. Proving that he has not forgotten his old tricks, he walks this wire to the window and carries Patricia back with him to the pole, down which they both climb. Inside the house, the senator and his secretary manage to get the best of the crooks, and after they have been placed in charge of a policeman, and the senator has met Patricia in her proper person, he is instrumental in getting Tom to propose and so end both their waiting and longing for each other.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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