Truth Stranger Than Fiction

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Hard pressed for money, the broker has appropriated funds of the firm, and dreads his partner's discovery of the deed. He tries in vain to borrow money, and determines to end his life after writing a confession. In the act of placing a pistol to his head, he is interrupted by a message informing him that oil has been discovered in the vicinity of his land, and the loan he requested will now be made. His one thought is to destroy the letter he left on his partner's desk. Entering the office by night, he is attacked by two robbers, who snatch the letter and leave him wounded. Fleeing from the police, the crooks enter the home of a novelist, who has procured a burglar's kit as a preliminary step to his investigation of the underworld. The kit establishes him as one of their order, and they invite him to their lair. At the home of the broker, whose daughter he loves, he overhears the two crooks and their female accomplice blackmailing his friend on the strength of the incriminating letter. He rushes to their den, secures the letter and, after a battle with the crooks, who are captured by the police, delivers the missive to his future father-in-law.