Jack Norman is an office clerk who falls in love with coworker Kate Blair a stenographer He gets fired from his job but before this can really sink in he suddenly inherits 80 million dollars from a financier who once loved his mother The financier Glyde was murdered so Norman also inherits a load of troubles involving the blackmailers who want to killed him In his attempt to outwit them Norman poses as a valet and has a friend impersonate him