Will Prescott Richard Dix is a bank cashier whose assistant Ned Seabury Neil Hamilton has made a killing in the stock market With his newfound riches Seabury proceeds to woo Prescotts wife Agnes Claire Adams by buying her luxurious items that her husband can not afford Seabury makes no secret of his aim and Prescott desperately steals some of the banks bonds hoping to make enough money to keep Agnes by his side