Heiress Ruth Dale meets ~censored~ Bartlett on a train, and mistakenly believes he's a crook sent to kidnap her. He's thrown off the train, leaving the real villains to spirit her away to a private sanitarium. Naturally, said sanitorium is run by a mad doctor with a penchant for performing gruesome experiments on his patients. Fobbed off by the police, Bartlett swings into action (literally) and sets off to rescue her, but can he make it in time?