Father Daly, seeing a capitalist and working man having a quarrel over their children, decides to interfere. He does so, and tells them a story of his early life as chaplain of a prison. Two children, Gordon Leigh and Marjorie Manning, are pretending they are doctor and nurse, burying a doll which has died following an operation. As the doll is buried the fathers of the children, Leigh, a wealthy man, and Manning, a poor florist, fight over their children’s associating. Manning, angry, shouts, “Some day my girl will own that fine house of yours.” Action shifts 15 years, about. Manning has become a rich florist. His daughter is his business assistant and very happy. Enters Perla, cabaret singer, to buy flowers. Manning falls in love with her. He marries her and she makes a mean step-mother, finally forcing Marjorie to leave home and strike out for herself. She becomes a nurse in the hospital where Gordon is chief surgeon. They fall in love, neither remembering their childhood friendship. They visit the scene of the doll’s grave and remember, digging up the doll. Perla meets Gordon, buying flowers for Marjorie, and recognizes a youthful love. She becomes jealous of Gordon’s new sweetheart, though she does not know who she is. She decides to follow him home to discover who the girl is. Manning, who has seen her with Gordon, is inflamed with jealousy and follows also. Gordon has arranged to have Marjorie come and superintend alterations at the house preparatory to the wedding. Gordon comes home and soon Perla confronts him in his room. She tries to win back his love, and failing, cries “Then no other woman shall have you.” Gordon tries to take the gun from her, but fails, and is badly wounded in the head. Manning rushes in, and, in trying to disarm Perla, she is shot dead in the struggle. An officer, attracted by the shots, finds Marjorie, who has come in, bending over Gordon, holding Perla’s gun in her hand. He arrests her and Manning to save his daughter, declares he did it. He is tried and convicted. Gordon, the only one alive who knows who shot Perla, has lost his memory as a result of the wound. The day for the execution draws near and Father Daly learns the true story in the confessional from Manning. He begs Manning to tell, but he refuses because he is afraid that his daughter will be accused of the crime. He is being made ready for execution when Gordon awakes from his trance. He immediately declares that Perla shot herself and that he saw it. Marjorie has an exciting chase to the Governor’s house for delay in the execution. The Governor telephones to the prison, but lazy telephone girls delay the message by giving the wrong number. At last he gets the prison too late to countermand the order for Manning’s execution. The quick-witted warden reaches over to a wall-box and tears the wires from the wall just as the executioner throws the switch that will kill Manning. Manning is saved by a hair and there is a general happy reunion. After his story Father Daly leaves the two quarrelers so moved that they become friends and their children continue to play together.