Andres Miro, a plantation owner in Louisiana, discovers that he has only a short time to live. He makes arrangements to marry his young ward, Jacqueline Lanier, so when he dies she will inherit his fortune. However, Jack Calhoun, a rejected suitor, kills Miro in a fit of anger, then shoots himself. A local reporter, seeing an opportunity to make a name for himself, writes a story about the incident that paints Jqacqueline as responsible for the deaths of both men due to her infidelity. Complications ensue.—[email protected]