- Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the celebrated detective Bob Macauley whose sweetheart Sylvia is a struggling salesgirl and the sole support of her ailing mother. When she is turned down for promotion by her boss, Sylvia applies for a position with a kindly woman who has offered her help. To her horror, Sylvia soon discovers that the woman is a madame and has lured her to the same house of ill repute in which Charlotte is being held captive. Meanwhile, searching for Charlotte, Bob visits the brothel disguised as a gasman and discovers that Sylvia is a resident. Thinking that she is there willingly, Bob upbraids her, but upon discovering the truth he rescues her as well as Charlotte and delivers Paul to the authorities.—Pamela Short
- While attending dancing school, Charlotte Baker meets a fascinating youth, Paul, with whom she becomes infatuated. Not being able to resist his declaration of love and promises to marry, she decides to elope with him, only to find herself drugged and taken to a resort of the underworld. Bob Macauley, the celebrated detective, is called by the family and the case placed into his hands. Bob Macauley visits a department store, where his life would have been taken in making an arrest of a pickpocket, had not the blow that was intended for him been warded off by Sylvia, a dainty little saleswoman, at whose counter the arrest was made. Bob becomes very much in love with her, but due to her poverty, she does not allow him to call. The task to keep her humble home and sick mother is a hard one. Light dawns one day when a handsome woman calls at her counter and offers her employment in odd hours. Going home one evening, she finds her mother's condition necessitated the services of a physician. The physician prescribed country air with the aid of a medicine, which is very expensive, as the only means of possible recovery. Being unable to meet these extra expenses, Sylvia applies to the manager of the store in which she is employed for an advancement on her salary. This is refused, and a short time after loses her position. With poverty and the approach of her mother's death facing her, she is reminded of the kind lady who offered her employment and decides to call. Once inside of the house, she is trapped and made an inmate. Bob disguised as a gas man, enters a house in search of Charlotte Baker, and to his surprise finds the girl he loves. Thinking this to be her reason for not allowing him to know her dwelling place, denounces her, but finally finds that she has been trapped and at once plans her escape, during which many thrilling adventures take place. She is finally restored to her sick mother, at the same time Bob has filled his mission as a detective in the employ of the Baker's and has succeeded in jailing the youth, Paul, with the man higher up.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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