"How can a thing be wrong when all concerned are benefited thereby, and injustice is done to no one." So reasons Rex Raynor's mother when a newborn baby she is caring for dies. This apparently well intentioned way of thinking puts in place a devastating train of events when the mother secretly gives her own living but unwanted baby to the mother of the child who died. As the story progresses and Rex Raynor becomes a man, the path of his life is anything but smooth as he has to run and hide from the family who brought him up, and from young woman he loves, landing himself in danger.