- A journalist is reluctant to ruin a woman's reputation for the sake of a juicy story.
- James Fairfax, editor of the "Morning Argus," will stop at nothing to get a beat for his paper. He glories in scandals. To him anything that is news is property, no matter whom it hurts. He impresses this on the members of his staff, who secretly resent his ways. Among the bitterest in this connection is reporter Dolly Clare. In private life Fairfax is very much in love with his wife Alice, and very jealous that Phillip Ainsworth had paid marked attentions to Mrs. Fairfax before her marriage. Mrs. Fairfax learns that Ainsworth has taken to hard drinking. His sister comes to her and asks her to use her influence with her brother to make him brace up. Mrs. Fairfax promises to see Ainsworth, although she is in desperate fear that her husband will find out and misconstrue her interest. She goes to Ainsworth's rooms late one afternoon. He has been drinking, and to her horror he produces a bundle of her letters written to him before her marriage, and her picture, which he has kept, telling her that she will always be the only woman in the world for him, that without her he doesn't care what happens to him. As she recoils from him he tries to catch her in his arms. She screams and dodges, and when Ainsworth tries to follow her, he trips and falls heavily to the floor. He is rendered unconscious, but the noise has alarmed the apartment house. Mrs. Fairfax takes her letters and rushes out just as Dolly appears at the other end of the hall. Dolly sees only a heavily-veiled woman, Dolly enters Phillip's rooms and discovers the photograph of Mrs. Fairfax, which the editor's wife has overlooked in her flight. Dolly doesn't know who it is, and she rushes to the phone to let Fairfax know of her scoop. Not reaching him at the office she calls him up at his residence. Mrs. Fairfax answers the phone and learns the terrible truth. She is overcome and loses no time in going to the newspaper office. There she pleads with Dolly for her reputation, concealing her identity. Fairfax calls over the phone for Dolly, and Mrs. Fairfax hastens away. Dolly secretly sorry for the unknown woman, pleads over the telephone with Fairfax to suppress the picture. Fairfax orders the photo to be printed on the front page, with big headlines. Dan, a reporter enters disgusted; his evening's work has resulted only in a story of an unknown suicide. Although he has her picture, he knows there will be no room in the Argus for it. He tosses it away. Dolly sees the photo and has a brilliant idea. Mrs. Fairfax decides to tell all to her husband. It is near midnight as she enters his den. When they come out a half-hour later he is a changed man. The story must be stopped. He believes his wife and has forgiven her. He rushes out. The papers are just coming out of the press and a boy runs through the office with papers on his way to the editorial rooms. Fairfax seizes the paper and discovers Dolly's substitution. He changes the policy of the Argus, making a clean sheet of it. Through the story runs a pretty love theme between Dolly and Dan, which culminates happily at the finish.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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