New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron’s wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller’s shop.

A ranch manager falls in love with a banker’s daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl’s parents, flee across the border into Mexico.