Marie and Conrad desire to marry one another, his father opposing the match. The old man is killed by the son in self-defense, and Conrad is forced to run away. Some time later Marie and Conrad meet again. The boy is arrested by the police while with her. She, in order to save his life, is forced to sell herself to the judge's son, and a baby is born. Marie leaves the child in the care of strangers, intending to kill herself. She is prevented and becomes the keeper of a gambling house, the money for which is furnished by a rich man. Her child is adopted by a wealthy family, and on growing up saves her foster brother from her own mother's gambling house, not knowing the relationship. Years pass by. Her lover, Conrad, is in prison and Marie is a penniless outcast. She bargains with Clifford, the judge's son, to sell the girl to him, neither knowing the victim is their own child. At the last moment it is discovered by the black cross which the girl wears, and which had been given her by ...