A married couple, both swindlers with police records, open a fake market. They read in the newspaper of the arrival of a wealthy young lumberman. The wife pretends an acquaintanceship and inveigles him into coming to the shop. There they are apparently just about to persuade him into making a heavy wager when the police break into a secret room where the stock machines are manipulated at the will of the crooked couple. The stranger turns out to be a star detective from headquarters.
—Moving Picture World, December 6, 1924