Summary
A gleaming skyscraper ladder-climber, Schuyler, vaults from ink-stained errand boy to marble-bronzed mogul, scooping up the very mansion whose prior master, John Houghton, now crawls through gilt corridors stripped of liquidity and pride. The vacuum was carved by Norman Yates, a spurned underling turned puppet-master of guilt, who whispers of a blood-stained ledger page until Houghton’s coin bleeds away in hush money. On the day Schuyler’s brass nameplate replaces the family crest, he crosses a threshold still warm with candlelight and resentment; Alice, the disinherited daughter, meets him with a gaze sharp enough to slice stock certificates. Yet when Yates slithers back to extort her future, Schuyler’s shielding arm becomes a pivot: distrust melts into alliance, alliance into tremulous ardor. Tables turn via a midnight confession pried from Yates beneath chandeliers that once dripped with his lies, restoring Houghton’s name and clearing the chapel aisle for a wedding march that echoes through emptied vaults now ringing with redemption.
Synopsis
When "Take A Chance" Schuyler rises from a Wall Street office boy to a wealthy investment broker, he purchases fellow broker John Houghton's estate. Houghton's funds have been depleted from blackmail payments made to his former employee, Norman Yates, who, out of revenge for Houghton's refusal of his daughter Alice's hand in marriage, has convinced the broker that he has committed a murder. When Schuyler arrives to take possession of the estate, he is surprised to find it still occupied by the Houghtons. At first, Alice resents Schuyler as an interloper, but she begins to change her opinion when the young broker protects her from Yates's threats. Yates retaliates by attempting to ruin Schuyler who then forces the blackmailer to admit that he actually was the killer. Houghton is thus exonerated and Alice and Schuyler marry.
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