To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's account book, but before carrying out the pilferage, he confesses to cashier Slayton, his superior. Slayton, who needs money to pay for his unsuccessful speculations, goes at night to take the money that Mansfield planned to embezzle, so that Mansfield will take the blame.
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James Morrison as Arthur Mansfield
Paul Scardon as Walter Slayton
Betty Howe as Enid Chamberlain
Edward Elkas as Jarboe
Stanley Walpole as Mansfield's Attorney
Robert Whitworth as President Chamberlain
United States 07 August 1916
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