Chorus girl Estelle Ryan (Mary MacLaren) doesn't know what she's in for when she becomes engaged to wealthy Wally Dreislin (Carl Von Schiller). His snooty family forces Wally to break off the relationship, whereupon the devastated young man commits suicide. Like Evelyn Nesbit before her, Estelle becomes a target of tabloid journalism, which has the positive effect of catapulting her into stardom. Soon thereafter, another young millionaire, Jansen Winthrop (Jack Holt), falls for Estelle. To save Jansen from himself, his older brother Robert (Phillips Smalley, who co-directed the film with wife Lois Weber) kidnaps the girl and hides her in the family's country house. At first outraged and humiliated, Estelle finds herself attracted to the basically honorable Robert, and upon being released from her luxurious prison announces her plans to marry him.
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