Corinne La Force, who is half-black, as her father had been shipwrecked on a West Indian island colonized by blacks, is raised by Henry Hasbrook after her father's death. Corinne loves Hasbrook's nephew, Arnold Curtis, and murders Hasbrook when he tries, because of her mixed blood, to prevent the match. Marcia Fleming, a married woman with whom Arnold was having an affair, and her mother-in-law are suspects, although Arnold is arrested for the murder. John Fleming, hired to defend Arnold, renounces his wife when he learns of her involvement with Arnold. Just as Arnold is about to confess to the crime in hopes of saving Marcia's reputation, Corinne admits her guilt and stabs herself. Fleming decides to pay more attention to Marcia, and the two are reconciled.—Pamela Short

Retained to defend a personal friend upon a murder charge a brilliant lawyer finds he can save him only at the cost of his own wife's fair name, and the possible conviction of his own mother. Arnold Curtis is engaged to his uncle's ward, Corinne, but the uncle refuses his consent, knowing that the girl has black blood in her veins. Corinne kills him, but suspicion falls upon the nephew, who really had been dining with the lawyer's wife at a road house while her mother-in-law has sought her at Arnold's apartments, and finds, instead, the dead body of the uncle, coming under suspicion. Arnold confesses to save the woman, and this leads to the confession from the real culprit.