A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
A swift moving drama of ritzy crooks and the New York Police. Pitfalls and dangers in the love story of a beautiful girl who was a "come on" for a gang of crooks, and a young Irishman who was "rarin' to go" in the brass buttons of a policeman