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Idealistic young lawyer Robert Edeson goes to work for district attorney Frank Keenan, little realizing that his new boss is an unregenerate "letch." Keenan's true nature surfaces when he steals Edeson's pretty but fickle wife Alma Hanlon away from the poor lad. Seeking a divorce, Hanlon names Edeson's innocent stenographer as co-respondent. Hoping to clear the girl's name, Edeson confronts his ex-wife and threatens to commit suicide if she doesn't drop her suit. He is prevented from this rash act by the stenographer, who by now has fallen in love with him. Hoping to put his troubles behind him, Edeson takes a clerical job at a bank, only to discover that his new boss is also squiring his former wife Hanlon. Embezzling thousands of dollars to pay for Hanlon's every whim, the bank president shifts the blame for his chicanery to poor Edeson. Shortly thereafter, the president is killed, and Edeson is charged with murder. Edeson's stenographer sweetheart decides to go to the new Public Defender to plead for the hero's life. Sure enough, that Public Defender turns out to be Keenan, who was responsible for the whole mess. Realizing that he, too, has been taken to the cleaners by Hanlon, the now-repentant Keenan races against time to save Edeson from the electric chair.