The False Road plot
Roger Moran, a member of a gang of thieves led by Mike Wilson, is released from prison after serving a two-year sentence. He has learned his lesson and vows to leave his criminal life behind, but his girlfriend Betty Palmer, also a member of the gang, wants to continue on the same path. Roger eventually leaves her and finds a job with a likeable banker, Joshua Starbuck. One day, however, the bank is broken into and the contents of the vault are stolen, and it turns out that the perpetrators are two members of Roger's old gang.