- To help their unemployed father make ends meet, Edith and her twin sister Grace work as seamstresses . An invalid, Grace falls prey to the temptations of Chinatown opium and becomes an addict, a condition worsened by a misguided physician who prescribes morphine to ease her pain. When their father strikes oil, the family enjoys a new prosperity and the sisters meet the eligible Jack Herron, a fellow oil prospector. To Grace's shock, Jack falls in love with Edith and in her jealousy, Grace tells Jack that Edith, not she, has a drug problem. Hinting that her sister will soon need more morphine, Grace arranges for a dinner in Chinatown with the couple. While her sister and Jack dance, Grace slips away to an opium den. Edith follows her, but ends up in the wrong den and is arrested in an ensuing drug raid. After he bails her out of jail, Edith takes an angry Jack to search for Grace and stumbles across her half-conscious body lying in the street. The truth about the sisters is revealed, and after sending Grace to a sanitarium in the country, Jack and Edith are married.—Pamela Short
- Edith and Grace Martin are twin sisters and the daughters of Dan Martin, a poor man out of work. While the father is out prospecting for oil with a young man, Jack Herron, the two girls and their mother keep the home going by sewing for a manufacturer of cheap garments. Grace is the sickly sister and while out in the street, resting, a drug fiend induces her to go around the corner from her home into Chinatown and purchase some opium. Grace gets her first taste of the drug and later, when an ignorant doctor gives her morphine to deaden pain she becomes a secret drug fiend. The father discovers oil and the family becomes wealthy. Herron meets the two sisters and falls in love with Edith. This arouses Grace's jealousy. Edith discovers that Grace uses morphine and takes it from her. Grace tells Herron that Edith takes the drug, and so plans it that Herron discovers Edith with morphine in her possession, but his love for her does not change. The place where Grace has been getting the drug is closed and she suggests to Herron that Edith will probably go to Chinatown after more. The three go to Chinatown for a dinner and Grace slips away to purchase opium and goes to a real opium den. Edith follows her but enters a fake den, is arrested and taken to jail. Herron goes on her bail. In the meantime Grace is taken out of the real den, robbed and left in the street, but is found by Jack and Edith, returning to search for her. Jack discovers that Grace is the real drug victim, and he and Edith are happy as Grace is taken to the country to be cured of the vice.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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