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Millionaire shipbuilder Job Armstrong has built his company up from nothing, and believes that his own abilities are more than enough to make him even richer and more successful, despite being reminded of the biblical story of the man who shares his first name. It comes to pass that his son-in-law, Count Bazaine, is being paid by a foreign power to gain control of the shipyards, and stops at nothing, including murder, to do so. After a series of tragedies and deaths of his loved ones, caused by Bazaine, Armstrong is in the depths of despair when a higher power shows him a glimmer of hope among his misery.

Sherry Mason, the playboy son of wealthy parents, lives a life of self-indulgence until he meets Nadia Meredith, the daughter of a poor bookseller. Smitten with her, he asks her to marry him but she refuses, detecting an evil streak hidden beneath his surface. He heads to Paris with his father's crooked business partner, where they get mixed up in a murder and Mason must flee back to the US, where he once again runs into Nadia under an entirely different set of circumstances.