Scene 1. “The Robbery.” At one of the tables in a well-known Casino, heavy gambling is going on and the occupants are well set for the evening. In the far corner of the same room, at the bar a man is drinking alone heavily, when he is approached by his young wife. Going down on her knees, she implores him to come away, but this man, thoroughly intoxicated, throws some liquor in her face and calls for the gendarmes to remove her. As she is led out, he staggers toward a couch, throws himself upon it, and is soon in a deep sleep. A tall man entering the room joins the gamblers and stakes heavily until he is quite cleaned out. Walking over towards the bar, the man waits in agitation until the gamblers have gone, and watches the croupier counting up results. A waiter passes through the room, and as he glances around, sees the eager eyes of the man fastened avariciously upon the notes: but he pretends to be quite ignorant and does not stop. No sooner is the man left alone with the banker than, crossing quickly over, he picks up the croupier’s mallet and hits his victim on the back of the head. The man falls unconscious, and the villain seizes the notes and gold just as the sly waiter peeps round the corner, without being observed. He sees the robber pick up the notes, cross over to the drunken man asleep on the couch and place one of the notes in his pocket. Picking up the mallet, he places it in the sleeping man’s hand, and, chuckling to himself, leaves the place, little knowing that a pair of eyes are watching all of his movements. The waiter, seeing a good opportunity for feathering his own nest, shouts for help, points to the unconscious man at the table and to the drunken man as the gendarmes and others rush in. The half stupid sleeper on being seized, is quite unable to understand his predicament and is astounded when the incriminating note is pulled from his pocket by the victim, who but gradually returned to his senses. As the man is being led away, his poor wife rushes in. only to be pushed roughly aside. She turns to the guilty waiter in despair, whose face she seems to recall but he turns away from her pleadings. Scene 2. “Blackmail.” The waiter, calling with a witness at the office of the villain, is delighted to find the room unoccupied. Telling his companion to hide behind a screen and to keep his ears open, he does not have to wait long before the villain enters. His request for hush money is first of all scorned by the robber, who laugh at his demands, until the waiter explains all he knows and brings forth his evidence. The villain is astounded, and. Finding bluff no good, he comes to terms and pays up. Clutching the money quickly, the waiter puts it in his pocket and removes the screen, and the companions leave, laughing at their success. The other man nervously staggers back in surprise to find himself so thoroughly trapped. In the street the poor wife is waiting in tears for her husband, who passes along in the charge of two gendarmes. She is able to embrace him once more before they load him away. Scene 3. “The Vision at the Café.” At a café the waiter is beginning to spend his ill gotten gains. Seated at a table, he is drinking. He is annoyed to find the wife of the wrongly charged man enter and seek him out. She goes up to him and implores him to speak out and clear her husband. The waiter waves her hack, but as she moves aside they both see a vision before them and the wife, staggering forward, falls with a thud to the floor. The man watches his victim brought in by the warders. Tied to the wall, he is heavily flogged, and upon being unfastened turns around and holds out his hands appealingly to the silent waiter. The vision vanishes, and the man jumps to his feet, determined to act rightly. Crossing to the wife, he picks her up and tells her his decision. Scene 4. “Justice at Last.” In a café garden the villain is seated in a comfortable place. When the waiter enters; and going to a gendarme, confesses what he knows. The guilty man is at once arrested and led away by the side of his accuser. In the court room the innocent man is being led forward, charged with the robbery at the Casino, as the waiter and his late assistant blackmailer enter the room as witnesses. At the same time the newly arrested man is brought forward, and after evidence has been fully taken, right triumphs. The innocent man is discharged, and the sneaking villain is led away to the cells.