阿墨匪，带领由他的父亲帮会的一部分，那张突袭进入美国，他爱上了一个美丽的女人，并决定离开他的犯罪生涯，安顿下来了她。最终，他的父亲和帮会回来给他，而他发现自己被撕毁了他的女人和他的忠诚，他的父亲和他的同胞团伙成员之间的爱情。

In 1848, a young Frenchwoman, Madeline Minot, goes to New York City to see Thevenet, the grandfather of her fiance. Thevenet had been with Napoleon and may be sympathetic to the political aims of his grandson. She finds the old man in very bad spirits, living in a large house with a housekeeper and a butler who are just waiting for him to die (and perhaps helping him along a bit) so they can inherit his fortune. They see Madeline as a threat to their plans. She is aided in her dealings with these strange people by a mysterious man in a cloak.