James Manning comes to Chicago to achieve his fortune. Tug Wilson offers him a job running errands, then frightens him into taking a steady position when James realizes he is involved with opium smugglers. Milly Amory a ruse for the crooks, falls in love with Manning, but Manning has a sweetheart back home, Mary Slocum, and she comes to search for him. To get rid of the girl, Milly poses as a medium and warns her away, until Manning finds out and exposes her tricks to Mary, fights for his life with Wilson, who is killed by Milly, and returns to Harmony, Illinois with Mary.—Pamela Short