- Ned is the son of a banker. He is wayward and speculates secretly and for large amounts. Losing, he uses the funds of his father's bank. He is assisted by Harkins, an employee at the bank. Employed in the bank is Williams, a young cashier. He loves the banker's daughter, and when this is found out the father and son, Ned, try to persuade the girl to have nothing to do with him. She refuses. In the meantime the brother and the other employee, Harkins, are in a dangerous predicament, for they have used bank funds which have been lost in speculating. The brother sees a chance to get rid of his sister's objectionable suitor and also to put the blame of the bank theft on him. That night the young cashier leaves the girl's house and is set upon by two masked men. He takes the masked man's revolver and fires. One of them falls. The man whom the young cashier knocks down leaps to his feet and takes off his mask. It is Harkins, the bank employee. He tells the astonished cashier that the man he, the cashier, fired at was the girl's brother. Believing himself to be a murderer, Williams leaves for his home with the employee. Harkins proposes that Williams shall leave the country, and as he has no funds, that he shall rob the bank. Williams agrees, Harkins goes home to pack his grip. Williams mad with remorse, sees the spirit of the murdered man everywhere before him and, finally, unable to bear the mental torture longer, he goes to his sweetheart's home, and before her father and herself accuses himself of the murder of the brother. The father sends for the police. The girl is wild with grief. Suddenly the supposedly murdered man comes in the room. Williams sees it all. He admits that he is a trickster, and says that his accomplice is waiting at the bank for the safe to be opened. The father accepts his son's story. The brother suggests telephoning, his idea being to warn the other, but Williams forbids this, and demands that the police go to the bank. They do, and arrest Harkins, who confesses. Williams gets the girl.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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