The house next to the Darrows is rented to a crippled gentleman, Jim Craven, his daughter, Doris Leath, and his attendant, Corless. Craven is entirely helpless, never leaving his wheel-chair. Nancy Darrow and her new neighbors become friends. Nancy falls in love with pretty Doris Leath. The girls become inseparable. Nancy has two brothers, one, Dick, a mere boy, the other, John, connected with the banking business. Nancy gives a party in honor of Doris. Several valuables are taken during the dance from the dressing rooms. The mystery regarding the theft is not solved. The Darrows are embarrassed and chagrined, but helpless, John Darrow comes home from the city, meets Doris, and the two fall deeply in love. John asks her hand in marriage. The two are soon betrothed. Sometime later, after John has returned to the city, Doris spends the evening with Nancy. The girls are on the porch with Dick, Doris asks to go in for a drink. Dick offers to get the drink, but Doris, who is like one of the family, insists upon waiting upon herself. She remains so long indoors that the brother and sister remark upon it. Finally she returns to the veranda. The next morning, Nancy finds her jewels missing, Nancy had been displaying the jewels to Doris, and so cannot help suspecting her. She takes occasion to refer pointedly to the jewels. Doris, bitterly hurt and humiliated, goes home and the friendship ends. John stops overnight on his way to New York, having a large sum of money to transfer to another bank. Stopping in Doris's house on his way home, she explains the trouble between herself and Nancy. John is very angry that his sweetheart is suspected of theft. Craven and Corless see John enter and also notice that he carefully guards the satchel he carries. The satchel contains the money. That same night, Doris, unable to sleep, kneels by her open window and hears steps below in the shrubbery. Throwing a black wrap over her dressing gown, she steals out. A burglar is placing a ladder below the second story window next door, where John sleeps. John is still up; a light shines through the wide open window. The burglar moves off to wait until John retires. Doris, never hesitating a minute, thinking only of John's impending danger, mounts the ladder and enters his room. John, stunned, sees her enter. Half fainting she tells him all. Hiding her behind a screen, and getting his revolver, he puts out the light and waits. The burglar returns, finds the house in darkness, and concludes that John has retired, climbs the ladder and enters. His flash can be seen darting about, before he locates the satchel on the table. At the same moment the lights are turned on. John shoots the fellow, who staggers toward the window, turns and his mask falls off. The burglar is Craven, Doris's step-father, a very clever criminal. He is captured and by the note found upon him, Corless is also caught in the nick of time, and the various jewels are recovered. Doris is cleared of all blame.
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