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George and John Bronson are brothers, very poor and in love with Mande Meriden. George proposes to Maude, but is told by her mother that he cannot marry her until he has obtained a position. John secures employment as a butler in the home of Mr. Parsons. George, meantime, departs from the straight and narrow path and plunges into a life of dissipation. His money gone, burglary is the next step. One night George climbs into the window of the Parsons' home quite unaware that his brother is employed there. In cracking the safe he manages to get the big door partway open when turning, he finds himself face to face with his brother, John. He flees. John instantly draws open the safe door and at that second there is a blinding flash, followed by the appearance of Mr. Parsons and the other members of the household. Taking a camera from a hidden recess in the safe, Mr. Parsons confronts John with his photograph. On this evidence of theft, John is sent to prison. Here he passes six years of a ten-year sentence. Meanwhile. George, having made a rich haul, pulls himself together and comes back to claim Mande Meriden. The couple are married and are living happily. One day when John is being transferred to another prison he leaps from the train and, in his convict garb, with his hands manacled together, creeps into a blacksmith's shop. His pleadings warm the stolid opposition of the blacksmith until the latter finally cuts away the handcuffs. Some weeks later John makes his way to his brother's home, confronts him with his wife present, and denounces him as the real thief. Detectives are called and in the ensuing excitement John shoots and seriously wounds his brother George. John is then taken away and tried for the shooting affray, as well as his escape from prison. Realizing that death is close at hand, George writes a last letter in which he confesses the original theft and the fact that he has been masquerading as a gentleman while his brother John has suffered in prison. This letter he gives to his wife, which succeeds in freeing John. One year later John asks Mande to become his wife.