The daughter of a professional burglar loathes the life of deceit that she is compelled to lead, and after trying in vain to persuade her father to forsake his evil ways, she rushes from the house and decides to commit suicide by throwing herself into a river. A young curate, who is passing, observes the rash act and heroically dives over after the girl and brings her to shore and carries her to his home, where his mother brings her back to consciousness and she becomes an inmate of the curate’s home. The curate marries the girl he befriended. One night while she is sitting asleep in a chair and the curate is out a burglar enters. She is awakened by the noise of breaking open a desk and starting up father and daughter stand face to face. While they talk the footsteps of the curates are heard approaching. Blood is thicker than water. She hides her father and takes the blame of the dismantled desk upon herself. But the burglar is discovered by the curate, and father and daughter confess all while she clings to her father instead of to her husband. But the curate forgives and the father repents and the final scene shows him as a trusted officer in the church of the curate.