Underworld thugs plot against the police to expand their criminal enterprises in New York's lower East Side. Buck Leslie (Thomas Meighan) is the gang leader who escapes to the rooftops when police raid his hideout. On the roof of a tenement building he meets a wheelchair-bound little girl. He talks her into telling the police she hasn't seen him -- as part of a game. Buck's cold heart is melted by the naive little girl, who has only seen the world from the top of the roof. Buck returns to visit the girl and brings her gifts. He finds out she is the younger sister of the plainclothes detective assigned to break up the gang, and Buck vows to give up his life of crime and take an honest job in a steel factory. The girl miraculously jumps from her wheelchair to warn Buck a plank has been removed between the buildings. As fire breaks out, Buck rescues the girl from the burning rooftop and safely hands her to the police. He is arrested, but injuries send him to the hospital. The little girl visits her hero in the hospital and tries to explain that Buck is not a vicious crook but a hero who will mend his ways.
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