Plot

When, after three years of active service, ace detective Jerry Brennon is ordered by his doctor to take a rest, Senator Reed, Jerry's staunch supporter since he arrested two crooks burglarizing the Reed home, prevails upon the detective to stay at his cabin in the mountains. Warned that the cabin is haunted, Jerry's suspicion is aroused when a bullet whizzes past his head. While searching the cabin, Jerry discovers a secret door that conceals a sobbing Helen Reed, who has been missing since her refusal to marry Schuyler Hastings. Learning that Helen has been kidnapped, Jerry drives to the village, enlists the aid of the sheriff and rushes back in time to arrest the kidnappers when they return to the cabin. Caught in the act, Helen's abductors admit that they were hired by Schuyler, who was planning to rescue Helen in a ploy to win her love. The Reeds are overjoyed to have their daughter back, and Jerry makes their happiness complete when he proposes to Helen.

Chief of Police Grady, of the New York Central Office, informed Jerry Brennon and "Bull" Renfroy, the two principal detectives of the force, that the Grayson gang was pulling a haul that night. Jerry caught two crooks in Senator Reed's home. The Senator was so grateful that he offered to do anything for Jerry. After three years of active service, Brennon reached the point where he faced a nervous breakdown. The doctor and Reed persuaded Jerry to take a rest, and he is sent to the Senator's cabin in the mountains. Helen Reed was courted by Schuyler Hastings, whom her mother favored. Helen, however, told Schuyler he would have to do something worthwhile before she would marry him. Jerry found the cabin lonely enough, but was rather suspicious because of the driver saying that it was haunted. As soon as he arrived a shot was fired at him. That night he slept restlessly. When he woke in the morning, two bullets whizzed past him and lodged in the bed. Then he found a note pinned on the door which warned him to get out. Jerry discovered a secret door, and upon forcing it, found a girl huddled on a bed, weeping bitterly. It was Helen, and though at first afraid of Jerry, she soon was telling him of her misfortune. While shopping, she had been kidnapped by getting into the wrong taxi. When the gangsters came to the cabin, Jerry climbed into a loft and listened to their planning to return at ten o'clock to remove Helen to a hut ten miles away. Jerry went quickly to the village where he found the sheriff and with him and some other men rushed back to the cabin. Helen was taken from the room. When the gangsters arrived a fight took place. Grady was delighted with Jerry's success and the Reeds were ready to weep for joy at seeing Helen again. Jerry proudly introduced his future wife. "The Gent" spoke up and told her that Schuyler had hired him to kidnap her; they were to demand a ransom and he was to receive the glory of rescuing her. Even Renfroy had to congratulate Jerry on his success.—Moving Picture World synopsis