Richard Hyde is a broker by day and a gambler by night. Charles Curtis, another gambler, loses steadily and pledges bis wife's pearl necklace that he may pay his gambling debts, and Hyde wins the pearls. Curtis returns home and confesses to his wife that he has lost her pearls, and that they are practically ruined. Mrs. Curtis resolves to recover her jewels as they are rightfully hers, and she conceives the idea of masquerading in the clothes of her husband. She enters the Hydes' abode and finds her necklace. As she is about to leave, she is confronted by Mrs. Hyde, and she tells the woman why she is there. In the meantime, Curtis left alone decides to take his life. He resolves to play one last hand of poker, this time with the devil. If Curtis wins he will live, but if the cards are against him he will take his life. He loses, and as he is about to kill himself, Hyde, the broker, rushes in, being sent there by his wife. The men shake hands and together they pledge never to again touch a card.