Freshly freed from prison, Johnny Gray visits his old friend Peter Ken. Without meaning to, he shows up on the day of Ken’s daughter’s wedding—the beautiful Mary, the girl Gray had been in love with.
Johnny Gray is thrown into turmoil; a whirlwind of conflicting feelings grips him—because the brilliant Geoffrey Floyd, the future husband whom Ken entrusted with his precious daughter, turns out to be a fraudster and notorious swindler, as well as the son of Gray’s enemy Legg.
Now a difficult task lies before Gray: how to protect poor Mary, since he can’t tell anyone anything directly. He turns for help to the detective J.J. Reeder.