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When the boy and girl are confronted by the sordid conditions of poverty, the girl, rather than give way to despair, seeks work, while the boy readily gives way to drink and crime. The sister finds employment with Corbin and Son, brokers. The brother goes to jail. Corbin, the senior member of the firm, is the type of man in whose company no girl can be safe from insult. The son, who is the real brains of the firm, is a young man of honor. A breach follows between father and son when the former attempts to make advances to the girl. Later, the son's name is dropped from the firm. Several years pass and we find the younger Corbin and his former stenographer married and happy. Corbin senior, constantly seeks to spoil the success of his son. Having finished his jail sentence, the brother of the girl returns to his old ways: he enters Corbin Sr.'s home to steal. He is captured and given the alternative of going back to jail by Corbin or accepting $1,000 and securing certain information from the son's place. The brother consents. In the young broker's home he finds his sister. He would carry out his scheme in spite of this, but the husband enters and under the point of a gun the brother confesses his mission. There is a mutual agreement and the brother returns to the house of Corbin Sr. with papers, the instructions of which, if carried out, will ruin the old man. Corbin takes the tip and after a thrilling scene on the stock market, goes broke, ruined at his own game. In the end he is glad to come to his son and again be a member of the firm of Corbin and Son.
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