Time Lock No. 776

Isaac Abrahams and his daughter, Helen, who are in fairly good circumstances, are seen taking care of their jewelry shop, when a very poorly clad lady enters, accompanied by a beautiful little boy and girl, with the intention of asking aid from the jeweler. The woman becomes suddenly ill and falls fainting to the floor. She is beyond medical aid, and dies later in Abraham's home over the jewelry store, after telling her benefactor to write to her brother, Henry Morton, in England, advising him where the children are. The children are well taken care of at the jeweler's home with the able assistance of the daughter's lover, Nathan, who helps amuse and teach them. Before the arrival of the uncle serious trouble starts for Mr. Abrahams, who has patented a time lock. In looking around for capital to back him in his new enterprise, he falls into the hands of Madge, an adventuress, and her partner, Jack Wayne, an unscrupulous broker, who accidentally learns that an underworld gang consisting of Mrs. Mallachi, Jem and Pietro, are conspiring to compel the jeweler to finish up a counterfeit plate for the manufacture of one hundred dollar bills. The underworld gang and the broker form a co-partnership because he needs their assistance in obtaining possession of the patent on Time Lock No. 776. During several visits to the jewelry store Jack Wayne, the broker, becomes infatuated with Abraham's daughter, Helen, who very strongly resists all his attentions on account of her love for Nathan. Being ambitious to go on the stage, Helen falls into the clutches of Jack Wayne's partner in crime, Madge, who convinces her that after years of stage experience she is better qualified than anyone else to introduce her to the proper people, who will make her name famous. Helen, unsuspecting that the spider's web is being woven around her, easily falls into its meshes, because she wants to earn money enough to place her father's time lock on the market. Helen, after taking a last look around their cozy home where she has spent so many delightful hours, kisses the little boy and girl whom her father has adopted, and starts to meet Madge to begin her stage career, but instead she is forced into an automobile and secreted in a deserted house until her father agrees to finish engraving the plate for the underworld gang and also gives them possession of the blue prints for his time lock patent. The father, after being handled roughly by the underworld gang, starts to finish engraving the