Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in sin and just scraping by. Bessie thinks Joe has stolen their meagre savings, so she leaves him and becomes a manicurist eventually marrying a wealthy man who turns out to be stingy and cruel. Joe saves heiress Marion (Mills) from drowning, makes good as a civil engineer and eventually marries her. Joe and Bessie meet again by chance and Joe, in helping her to keep her secret, incurs Marion's jealousy. Bessie, extorted by a former acquaintance in desperation, decides to tell everything to her husband. However, to aid Joe she accuses Wallace (Miljan), with whom Marion is preparing to go away. Finally, Joe and Marion are reconciled, but Bessie learns that the world never forgives a woman who sins even when she has reformed.
Bernard H. Hyman
Director

Conway Tearle
Joe Strickland

Agnes Ayres
Bessie Hayes

Alyce Mills
Marion Winslow

Otto Matieson
Frank Bowman

Robert Ober
Harvey Larkin

John Miljan
Wallace

Mary Beth Milford

Eve Southern
Mrs. Strickland
Marjery O'Neill
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