It is humiliating enough to be falsely accused of crime under ordinary circumstances, especially such as befalls the young Romeo in our story. He is desperately in love with a pretty miss, but her father, a miserly old skinflint, strongly objects to their marriage. A desire for revenge in small matters sometimes leads people far beyond their depth. The old man in his desire to part the couple once and for all cooks up a vicious plot. He manager to secure the young man's cap, and placing it under his safe raises an alarm as if he had been robbed. The first policeman he meets on the street is the young man's father and when they both return to the house the policeman, of course, searches for a clue and finds the cap. The old man cunningly shows surprise but demands that the father arrest his son. Believing his son innocent, he refuses and the miser goes out for another policeman, who against his own will goes for the young man as a matter of duty. In laying out the scheme, however, the old man was not unseen, for when he removed the valuables from the safe his own daughter saw where he secreted them. When her lover is brought to the point to his guilt, when suddenly she remembers the action of her father which she had witnessed. Stepping to a chair in the room she lifts the padding and reveals to the astounded gaze of all gathered the money supposedly lost. It looks dark for her father, but those whom he plotted against remember that to err is human, so they divinely forgive, and all ends happily.
—Moving Picture World synopsis