When Jennie Malone is accused of forgery, her father Black Jerry, the proprietor of an underworld dive, realizes that his daughter deserves a better living environment. With the aid of her Uncle George, he arranges for Jennie to attend boarding school under an assumed name. Once there, Jennie falls in love with Kenneth Harrison, her roommate's brother. Kenneth's father has an unscrupulous business partner named Sam Conway, who kills a man and frames Harry Edwards, an old friend of Jennie's, for the murder. To save Edwards from the electric chair, Jennie is faced with the quandary of testifying in his behalf and thus revealing her past, or remaining silent and sealing his death. Jennie chooses the former, but Kenneth forgives her and all ends happily.—AFI