Plot
Naomi Iverson (Audrey Ferris), an athletic, carefree girl, is about to start out on another of her continual rounds of young people’s parties when she overhears her father (George Fawcett) and his attorney Austin (Burr McIntosh) talking in the library of the Iverson home. She learns that Iverson, in order to secure funds to continue her life of luxury, has assumed the blame for engaging in an illegal stock pool and is to be sentenced by the Federal Government to five years in prison. In return, he has received a check for one million dollars from Hardin (Edmund Breese), his former partner but now bitterest enemy—though their years-long quarrel began over the trifling fact that one had voted for Bryan and the other for McKinley.
Naomi discovers that her father gave the confession just minutes before to Miss Hickey (Virginia Sale), Hardin’s secretary, who in return handed over Hardin’s check to Iverson. By a ruse Naomi learns Miss Hickey’s address, and then, going to the library to bid her father goodnight before leaving ostensibly for a party, secretly secures possession of the check and rushes away to secure the return of the confession. She locates Miss Hickey in the bathroom, appropriates her suitcase, and rushes to catch Hardin’s yacht, where the secretary is expected to work with her employer over the weekend.
In her hurry, Naomi leaps into a taxi already occupied by the inebriated Dickie (Hallam Cooley). After tricking him out of the cab, she eventually boards the yacht, which only departs after she meets Ernest Hardin (Wallace MacDonald), son of Hardin, and discovers Dickie is a friend of Ernest. Cora (uncredited), who tries to win Ernest’s affection, also comes aboard but leaves angrily when she suspects a relationship between Ernest and Naomi. Dickie recognizes Naomi, but craftily keeps silent.
Iverson misses the check and, realizing what Naomi must have done, starts in pursuit of her. Ernest and Naomi have been immediately attracted to each other, but Ernest is hurt by her apparent friendship with Dickie, especially after he discovers her opening with a chisel the drawer where his father placed the confession in a small leather case. Naomi hides the case in her stocking and defiantly dares Ernest to take it.
A gang of rum runners, led by Tony (uncredited), is discovered by a government cutter but escapes in the dark and ties up alongside the moving yacht. Tony takes charge of the latter, and his men proceed to transfer their liquor to the yacht’s deck, intending to take it back after a few hours. Iverson has already succeeded in boarding the yacht at sea, and the quarrel with Hardin is at white heat. Iverson finally discovers Naomi, but by this time Tony has looked upon the girl with covetous eyes and acts. Iverson and Hardin are set adrift in his rum boat. Intent on embracing Naomi, Tony has a fierce fight with Ernest, who is aided by Naomi. However, she is finally cornered by the rum runner, and to escape his clutches, she dives overboard, followed by Ernest. He rescues her and swims to shore with her.
The revenue cutter arrives and arrests the two old men, despite their protests that they are not rum runners. Ernest and Naomi visit their fathers in jail and announce they have been married. The fathers come to terms and become friends. Iverson endorses the million-dollar check over to the young couple, and Ernest tears the confession into bits. The young people admit they are not yet married, but with a wedding present of a million dollars already assured, they will do so at once.
