Dorothea Vale found it hard to choose between two suitors, Jack Conway and Jack Livingston. She finally accepted Conway, and they made their home with his sweet old mother. For a time they lived happily. Conway became a trusted bank cashier and grew prosperous. Then he began to go the pace, and neglected his faithful wife for women of the world. Dorothea soon learned of her husband's escapades. She tried to win him back from his ruinous course, but without avail. So she devoted herself to his aged mother. At last the inevitable happened. Conway was found short in his accounts by the bank examiner. He rushed to his home, hurriedly packed his grip, and while he delayed for a moment for his mother's caresses the detectives, who had followed him to the house, placed him under arrest. He was tried and sentenced to a long term in prison.