Penniless inventor Jack Saunders, in search of a girl he loves, assumes the guilt for a murder in return for $20,000 and promise of a pardon at the end of a year. When the agreement is not fulfilled, he breaks jail and appears, demanding justice, before the governor, whose daughter, Margaret, committed the crime in self-defense. Saunders prevents her forced marriage to politician Burke, and Margaret, recognizing her lost love, clears his name and is herself exonerated.

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Cast

John Gilbert

Jack Saunders

Evelyn Brent

Margaret West

John Miljan

Lew Brody

Edwin B. Tilton

Governor

Harry Todd

Burke

Frank Beal

Warden

Arthur Stuart Hull