The husband, falling in with evil companions, neglects his wife and child, and finally leaves them, as he assumes, to the tender mercies of public charities. About to indulge in a crime of the worst order, that of burglary, his conscience pricks him, and he resolves to do better. Fate attends him and he gets a job in a lumber yard, but is unable to find his wife, as she has removed from the old neighborhood. The wife, taken sick, as a last resort sends her child to the pawnshop with her wedding ring. The husband happens to be there superintending some alterations when the child arrives and through this painful episode a reunion is effected.
—Moving Picture World synopsis