Albert is a “Raffles,” a social highwayman, who, while mingling with high society, takes toll of their jewels and pocketbooks so cleverly that his pilferings are unsuspected even by his big brother, Jim. Both love the same girl but Albert has the luck to steal her heart on the very evening when detectives have been detailed to shadow and arrest him at a grand reception. It happens that suspicion is shifted to Jim. and on being searched, a diamond brooch and an engagement ring are found in his pockets. Having just witnessed his brother’s acceptance by his lady love Jim does not explain that he purchased this jewelry in hopes of winning her himself: and when the knowledge of Albert’s guilt is forced upon him, he decides to pay the penalty rather than spoil the girl’s romance. Albert reforms after his marriage, but the knowledge that his brother is paying the penalty of his crimes in the penitentiary, weighs upon him, and his health fails. Feeling that his end is near. Albert writes a full confession, but when this document is delivered to Jim he tears it up, refusing to secure his release at the price of disgracing his brother’s widow and child. So Albert’s memory is left without reproach.