Harry Raynor, private secretary to John Ross, the political boss, mortally fears his brutal employer. Ross imprisons Quinn. who has offended him politically, on a false charge of murder, and Raynor is just in time to save Alice, Quinn's daughter, from taking her life. He entrusts the girl, penniless and ill, to his mother. In her delirium she calls constantly for her father. The young man determines to steal from Ross the evidence of Quinn's innocence. The boss catches him in the act, and Raynor proves in a thrilling scene that he is the superior in both physical and moral courage. Quinn is exonerated, and Harry and Alice are married.
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