Burt and Albert are twin brothers, so exactly alike that nobody can tell them apart; the only way is that Burt has a particularly odd scar on his right wrist. Both brothers love Lucille Dayton, daughter of a wealthy stockbroker. She prefers Burt and accepts his proposal. Albert is furious and seeks some way to dishonor his brother and win the girl for himself, Finally he forges his own name to a check, and by appearing at his club, establishes an alibi and makes it look like Burt passed the check. Burt is arrested and sent to jail. Lucille believes in him and vows to be faithful to him. His brother out of the way, Albert ruins the girl's father. The old man dies and the girl is left penniless to earn a living. Albert tells her that sooner or later she will come to him. He has her discharged from every position she manages to get. About this time Burt is released from jail and is unable to find either Lucille or Albert. Despondent, he joins an underworld gang and is soon assigned to rob a house. This happens to be his own brother's. He enters the richly furnished room, switches on the lights and the twin brothers are face to face. Burt denounces Albert, and he, overcome, and seized by an attack of heart failure, falls dead. Burt dresses in his brother's clothes and ringing for a servant has the body carried out as that of a vagrant. Unable to get work, Lucille seeks Albert's home. Burt comes down to find the girl he has sought crouching in a chair by the fire. He goes to her, she shrinks away from him, saying only, "I came because I was hungry." Burt takes her in his arms and makes her understand who he is. Breaking down she sobs out all the horror of the past few months when she was always persecuted by his brother and how she was on the brink of yielding to his demands because he was making life so hard for her. Burt comforts her, saying, "We have both been on the brink of sin, but now let us start anew together."