Myra is the daughter of old John Barclay, well known on the stage. A few years before the opening of the story she had run away from home with a man whom she had thought that she loved. But after a few months she realized that he did not really care for her. But it was too late to go back, as she was too proud to ask her father's forgiveness. One day the police come after her husband and she finds that the reason that he never stayed at home was that he was a burglar by profession. In the town where Barclay is playing he is taken sick, but acts in the performance, as there is no one to take his place. This brings on a serious illness that causes the disbandment of the company, as he is necessary to its existence. In the meanwhile Myra has reached her last resources. There is nothing left to pawn and the landlord wants his rent. She is sick so she cannot work, and there is nothing left for her but the streets. She is picked up by a kindly woman and taken to the hospital. But before this has happened she has written to her father, telling him of her plight and asking him to come to her aid. When old Barclay has fully recovered from his illness he sets out to help his daughter, but finds that she has left her lodgings without giving a new address. While resting in his rooming house, thinking of the best course to follow he hears a typewriter hammering away and finds that there is a young author writing a play. Barclay, from the wealth of his long experience, gives him advice and gets a manager to promise to put it on. So the two of them go to a secluded spot by the seashore to revise the play. In the meantime Myra has been discharged from the hospital, well but penniless. She does not know what to do, but at last decides to end it all. She jumps from the top of a bridge, but is rescued by some fisherfolk, who take care of her. But she has lost her memory and cannot remember anything that has happened. To this place come old Barclay and his young friend. When Myra sees her old father her memory returns and there is a happy reunion. Then later the news comes that Wade has been killed in trying to escape and the family is happy in the knowledge that the only cloud that was hanging over them has been dispelled.