[1] A poor girl named Nancy (Olive Thomas) leaves to take care of her two younger sisters, Sadie (Ann Forrest) and Jane (Dolly Dare), while their father (Walter Perry), who is a former criminal, is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit and dies there.

At that time Jonathan Twist, a quaint philosopher and their somewhat mysterious neighbor who operates a watch repair shop and part-time fence, offers them help, and Nancy finds with his help a job as a seller of Cocoa Climax.

Nancy does not have enough income to keep up the estates of Lord Cleveland in England, which pass to his other relatives, but receives the palatial home in America.

She manages to keep this home and its servants without any visible means of support, and during this time the activities of a crook called by the police "The Bird" are mystifying the authorities.

On the night of a reception at her house, there is a large diamond theft, and Jim Garside is detailed to catch The Bird.