Laurel Vane, a young woman, is left an orphan after her father dies unexpectedly. She then finds one last article he had written before his sickness and realizes that publishing it would help with the money required for his funeral. She goes to his publisher, Mr. Gordon, to hand in the article and receive the payment. There she meets Beatrix Gordon, who helps her with the paper and, in return, gets Laurel's promise that she'll do anything for her. The novel presents an exciting story about the events that follow in the lives of both women. This fiction by American novelist Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller is a dime novel full of classic melodrama and amusing characters. The prevailing theme of deception and conspiracy make this work a gripping story.