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Detective Rand is assigned to search for Slick Jim, a notorious thief who has recently escaped from the penitentiary. Mrs. Rand, left alone in her house during his absence, writes a letter to him, telling him of a certain payment of money to be made her on the following day. While she is engaged in this wifely task, a man who claims to be Deputy City Assessor, calls and asks to inventory the personal effects in the house. Although she is the wife of a smooth detective, he cunningly gets her out of the room and manages to read the letter that she has inadvertently left on the table. This letter follows Rand to another city and is accidentally burned before he has an opportunity to peruse it. The unburned portion of the missive, however, has a thrilling appeal from the wife, begging the husband to hurry home, as she is in imminent danger. He rushes to the telephone and finds the wires dead. His train is late as a result of a storm. Desperate, he hires an auto, and starts for home, forty miles away, arriving just in time to capture the bogus assessor, who is about to rob Mrs. Rand. When he tears the disguise from the villain's face, he proves to be Slick Jim, the escaped convict that he was hunting in another city, so he adds a new charge to that one as an incorrigible criminal.
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